The Traditional Knowledge of Quilombola About Plants: Does urbanization matter?

Ávila, Julia Vieira da Cunha; Zank, Sofia; Valadares, Kênia Maria de Oliveira; Maragno, Juana Moreira; Hanazaki, Natália

doi:10.17348/era.14.0.453-462

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“…Fortunato (28°01'21"S, 48°39'52"W) is the most rural and occurs approximately 7 km from the center of Garopaba on the side of a hill, surrounded by vegetation. Santa Cruz (27°58'24"S, 48°41'16"W), which is located near the center of Paulo Lopes, is partially urbanized compared to the other two communities (Avila et al 2015).…”

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“…Fortunato has the most native vegetation, which has increased over recent decades due to a decrease in agricultural practices and because residents have been searching for salaried jobs; the amount of native vegetation in Aldeia and Santa Cruz has decreased due to urbanization and deforestation (Zank et al 2016). Fortunato still has the largest percentage of people who get income from farming (Avila et al 2015). General characteristics of these communities are described by Avila et al (2015).…”

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“…Fortunato still has the largest percentage of people who get income from farming (Avila et al 2015). General characteristics of these communities are described by Avila et al (2015).…”

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“…The participation of the informants was conditional to their prior informed consent (Avila et al 2015).…”

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“…Poot-Poll et al (2015) emphasizes that the relationship between rural conditions and agrobiodiversity assumes complex forms (Poot-Poll et al 2015) and, as noted by Galluzzi et al (2010), agrobiodiversity along a rural-urban gradient needs further study. Avila et al (2015) found that, along a rural-urban gradient, home gardens are the main places where quilombola communities obtain their resources. Over the past decades, populations of African descendants in Brazil have been recognized for their traditionalism.…”

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Agrobiodiversity and in situ conservation in quilombola home gardens with different intensities of urbanization

Ávila

Mello

Beretta³

et al. 2017

Acta Bot. Bras.

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Among the agricultural environments of traditional communities, home gardens are frequently cited as high agrobiodiversity sites. However, the agrobiodiversity of home gardens along a rural-urban gradient demands study in order to identify possible infl uences of urbanization and to support mitigation of impacts. Th e present work investigated the role home gardens play in the in situ agrobiodiversity conservation of plants in quilombola communities with diff erent degrees of urbanization. Th e study found that more urbanized communities have larger home gardens, but the average richness of plant species in these areas was not statistically diff erent among the communities. Furthermore, the abundance of plant species was similar. Medicinal and food plants were mainly found in home gardens of the communities with high to intermediate levels of urbanization, while ornamental plants were more common in rural community home gardens. It is believed that crop exclusivity in home gardens of the more urbanized communities highly infl uenced the results, increasing the role home gardens play in maintaining traditional practices. Th e elevated and statistically equal species richness in home gardens suggests that, despite the factors generated by urbanization, all of the communities are very important for in situ conservation of native and introduced species.

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“…Fortunato still has the largest percentage of people who get income from farming (Avila et al 2015). General characteristics of these communities are described by Avila et al (2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The participation of the informants was conditional to their prior informed consent (Avila et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Agrobiodiversity and in situ conservation in quilombola home gardens with different intensities of urbanization

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Mello

Beretta³

et al. 2017

Acta Bot. Bras.

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Unraveling Sustainability in Brazilian Ethnobotany: An Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Ferrari,

Zank,

Hanazaki

2024

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First large-scale ethnobotanical survey in the province of Uíge, northern Angola

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Mawunu²,

Pedro³

et al. 2018

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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BackgroundAngola suffered a long-lasting military conflict. Therefore, traditional knowledge of plant usage is still an important part of cultural heritage, especially concerning the still very poor health care system in the country. Our study documents for the first time traditional knowledge of plant use of local Bakongo communities in the northern province of Uíge on a large scale with a focus on medicinal plants and puts data in context to different parameters of age, gender and distance to the provincial capital.MethodsField work was carried out during nine field trips in 13 municipalities between October 2013 and October 2016. In 62 groups, 162 informants were interviewed. Herbarium specimens were taken for later identification. Database was analysed using Relative Frequency of Citations, Cultural Importance Index, and Informant Consensus Factor. Furthermore, significances of influence of age, gender and distance were calculated.ResultsOur study presents 2390 use-reports, listing 358 species in 96 plant families, while just three out of 358 mentioned species are endemic to Angola about one-fifth are neophytes. The larger the distance, the higher the number of use citations of medical plants. Although women represent just a fifth of all citations (22%), their contribution to medicinal plants was proportionally even higher (83%) than those of men (74%). Fifty percent of all plants mentioned in the study were just listed by men, 12% just by women. We made some new discoveries, for example. Gardenia ternifolia seems to be promising for treatment of measles, and Annona stenophylla subsp. cuneata has never been ethnobotanically nor phytochemically investigated.ConclusionsWhile the study area is large, no significant influence of the distance in regard to species composition in traditional healer’s concepts of the respective village was pointed out. Although several plants were just mentioned by women or men, respectively, no significant restriction to gender-specific illnesses in medical plant use could be found. Merely concerning the age of informants, a slight shift could be detected.Graphical abstractVisual representation of the ethnobotanical study in Uíge, northern Angola.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13002-018-0238-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The Traditional Knowledge of Quilombola About Plants: Does urbanization matter?

Cited by 20 publications

References 28 publications

Agrobiodiversity and in situ conservation in quilombola home gardens with different intensities of urbanization

Agrobiodiversity and in situ conservation in quilombola home gardens with different intensities of urbanization

Unraveling Sustainability in Brazilian Ethnobotany: An Analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

First large-scale ethnobotanical survey in the province of Uíge, northern Angola

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