Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants of Kara and Kwego semi-pastoralist people in Lower Omo River Valley, Debub Omo Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Teklehaymanot, Tilahun ^a   Giday, Mirutse ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLANT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POPULATION GROUPS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955542649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-6-23     Document Type: Article

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