Livelihood strategies and use of forest resources in a protected area in the Brazilian semiarid

Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Santos; Melo, Carlos Vinícius Silveira da Cunha; Andrade, Clara de Assis; Oliveira, Danilo Vicente Batista de; Brito, Valdir de Moura; Rito, Kátia F.; Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz de; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino

doi:10.1007/s10668-021-01529-3

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“…Studies have reported that in communities where women play the role of caretakers and are responsible for collecting medicinal resources, they have a greater plant knowledge [18,[40][41][42]. However, if a man is involved in agricultural activities and is responsible for collecting medicinal resources from forests, his knowledge of medicinal plants may be more expansive than that of the women [27]. Sometimes, men perform the role of healers in some indigenous Brazilian communities, which means that their knowledge of medicinal plants is more extensive than that of the women [18].…”

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“…PARNA Catimbau was established as an environmental protection area in 2002; however, these communities were living there prior to this establishment. Land expropriation processes have not been completed and have generated local socio-environmental conflicts [ 27 , 28 ].…”

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“…More than half of their homes are built with mud and wood and do not have sewers or toilets. Streets are either paved or unpaved [ 27 , 28 ].…”

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Easy Access to Biomedicine and Knowledge about Medicinal Plants: A Case Study in a Semiarid Region of Brazil

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Albuquerque

Araújo

2022

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We aimed to evaluate how proximity to urban areas interferes with the relationship between socioeconomic variables and various aspects of medicinal plant knowledge. The study was conducted in six communities of the Catimbau National Park (PARNA Catimbau) in the state of Pernambuco. Eighty participants were interviewed. The communities were divided into two groups according to their distance from the nearest urban center. Socioeconomic data and information on medicinal plants were collected through semistructured interviews. Subsequently, generalized linear models were generated to verify the influence of the interaction between the variables on medicinal knowledge. We observed that proximity to the urban center influenced the relationship between the level of education and the knowledge of body systems treated by medicinal plants. We concluded that environmental variables can generate a differentiated effect on the influence of socioeconomic factors on one’s knowledge of medicinal plants.

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Easy Access to Biomedicine and Knowledge about Medicinal Plants: A Case Study in a Semiarid Region of Brazil

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Albuquerque

Araújo

2022

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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“…This research has considered elements such as species supply (i.e., availability) and demand (i.e., quantities of plant material being exploited), conservation status, and impact of the harvesting method (e.g., harvesting subterranean parts vs. leaves) 10,11 . Some studies have analysed the depletion risks of plants traditionally used as medicine 12 , but as recently suggested by the last Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report on Sustainable Use on Wild Species, management derived from indigenous and local knowledge systems provides insights on sustainable use 3 , since people are inclined to conserve those resources that have an emotional value 13 . Examples of sustainable harvesting include limiting the proportion of individuals gathered to allow reproduction (e.g., Sideritis raeseri Heldr.…”

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Cultural importance, availability, and conservation status of Spanish medicinal plants. Implications for sustainability

Mateo-Martín

Benítez

Gras

et al. 2022

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The harvest of wild plants with medicinal uses is increasing globally, but we know little of the effects of non-commercial harvesting in their conservation status. Here, we explore the connection between the cultural importance of the 1,376 wild medicinal vascular plants traditionally used in Spain for self-treatment (22% of the autochthonous flora, being 16% endemic) and their availability, conservation, and legal protection status, and discuss the implication of our results for sustainability. A species cultural importance is positively correlated with its abundance (ρ = 0.466) and occupancy area (ρ = 0.495). Only 6% of the wild medicinal plants traditionally used in Spain are fully or largely affected by protection measures. Most species used for self-treatment in Spain are common, highly available, and not threatened. This suggests that domestic use does not lead to overexploitation, and proves the sustainability of this knowledge system.

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“…This includes rural populations living in semiarid regions, which, in addition to low rainfall totals and annual and inter-annual irregularities in rainfall patterns, have poor infrastructure for coping with the adversities of climate change (Banerjee, 2014;Dhanya and Ramachandran, 2016). In the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil, for example, the dependence on forest resources and the low income of rural populations have already been documented, factors that make rural populations more vulnerable to climate change (de Albuquerque et al, 2012;dos Santos et al, 2013;Silva et al, 2017;Gonçalves et al, 2021).…”

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Farmers’ Perceptions of the Effects of Extreme Environmental Changes on Their Health: A Study in the Semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil

Magalhães

Feitosa

Araújo

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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People living in areas vulnerable to diseases caused by extreme climate change events, such as semiarid regions, tend to recognize them quickly and, consequently, develop strategies to cope with their effects. Our study investigated the perception of diseases by farmers living in the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil and the adaptive strategies locally developed and used. To this end, the effect of the incidence and severity of locally perceived diseases on the frequency of adaptive responses adopted by the farmers was tested. The research was conducted in rural communities in the Pernambuco State, Northeastern Region of Brazil. Semi-structured interviews with 143 farmers were conducted to collect information about major drought and rainfall events, the perceived diseases related to these events, and the adaptive strategies developed to mitigate them. The incidence and severity of diseases perceived by farmers were calculated using the Participatory Risk Mapping method and the frequency of adaptive strategies. Our findings demonstrated that few climate change-related diseases were frequently mentioned by farmers, indicating low incidence rates. Among them, direct transmission diseases were the most frequently mentioned. Adaptive strategies to deal with the mentioned diseases related to prophylactic behavior were less mentioned, except if already utilized. Our model demonstrated that incidence was the only explanatory variable with a significant impact on the adaptive strategies used to deal with the effects of these risks on health. Our findings suggest that the estimated incidence of diseases should be considered in the development of predictive climate change models for government policy measures for the public health security of populations in areas of greater socio-environmental vulnerability.

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Livelihood strategies and use of forest resources in a protected area in the Brazilian semiarid

Cited by 7 publications

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Easy Access to Biomedicine and Knowledge about Medicinal Plants: A Case Study in a Semiarid Region of Brazil

Easy Access to Biomedicine and Knowledge about Medicinal Plants: A Case Study in a Semiarid Region of Brazil

Cultural importance, availability, and conservation status of Spanish medicinal plants. Implications for sustainability

Farmers’ Perceptions of the Effects of Extreme Environmental Changes on Their Health: A Study in the Semiarid Region of Northeastern Brazil

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