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Wild edible plants sustaining food security among indigenous communities in Kashmir Himalayas, India

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Title Wild edible plants sustaining food security among indigenous communities in Kashmir Himalayas, India
 
Creator Khan, Shaista
Masoodi, Tariq Hussain
Ajaz-Ul-Islam, Mohammad
Pala, Nazir Ahmad
Mugloo, Javeed Ahmad
Raja, Azeem
Atta, Ummar
Rizvi, Snowber Zehra
 
Subject Edibles
Indigenous communities
Traditional knowledge
Wild plants
 
Description 977-987
Gujjar and Bakarwal communities of Kashmir Himalayas living in remote and mountainous regions possess limited
resources to sustain their life. The local wild edibles are still utilized traditionally by these tribal communities, but this
traditional knowledge is yet to be documented. Therefore, the present research was conducted to explore and prospect the
wild edible plants traditionally consumed by the tribal communities in India. Field appraisals included preparation of semistructured
interview schedules, interview of primary respondents, participatory observation and open listing. A total number
of 111 respondents were selected by employing the multistage random sampling approach and information regarding Wild
Edible Plants (WEPs) was collected. The Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC) was evaluated to recognize the most
culturally important WEPs among indigenous communities. A total of 55 plant species of WEPs extracted by the indigenous
people corresponding to 45 genera and 31 families were documented. Among all the species, Malva neglecta demonstrated
the highest RFC value (0.87) whereas Taxus contorta with the least RFC value of 0.03. The WEPs used by the Gujjar and
Bakarwal tribes are diverse and prolific in the Himalayan region. The present study could be a keystone to be reformulated
in other regions of India as well as to be wide spreading through nutrigenomics and pharmacological explorations in order to
sustain traditional native knowledge.
 
Date 2024-10-30T04:52:58Z
2024-10-30T04:52:58Z
2024-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/64762
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijtk.v23i10.14488
 
Language en
 
Relation Int Cl.24: A61K 36/00
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJTK Vol.23(10) [October 2024]