Famine Foods of Brazil's Seasonal Dry Forests: Ethnobotanical and Nutritional Aspects

Economic Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-34

  do Nascimento, Viviany Teixeira ^a   da Silva Vasconcelos, Maria Angélica ^b   Maciel, Maria Inês Sucupira ^a   Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Caatinga; emergency food; famine food; food plants; nutritional composition; nutritional potential; semi arid

Indexed keywords

DIOCLEA GRANDIFLORA; ENCHOLIRIUM; MANDEVILLA; MANIHOT; MANIHOT DICHOTOMA; MANIHOT GLAZIOVII; PILOSOCEREUS;

EID: 84858698266     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-012-9187-2     Document Type: Article

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