Consumption of Wild-Growing Vegetables in the Honde Valley, Zimbabwe

Economic Botany

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 436-449

  Manduna, Idah ^a,b   Vibrans, Heike ^b  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b Campus Montecillo ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

AIVs; Ethnobotanical knowledge; health; nutrition; wild vegetables

Indexed keywords

EID: 85067199246     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: 18749364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-019-9441-y     Document Type: Article

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