Urban foraging of wild plants in two medium-sized South African towns: People, perceptions and practices

Garekae, Hesekia; Shackleton, Charlie M.

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126581

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“…The daily consumption of indigenous and naturalized plants has potential to enhance proper growth, good health and well-being [6,37]. However, studies have confirmed that people with high income and formal education attainment mostly show negative attitudes towards indigenous and naturalized plants [38]. Therefore, indigenous and naturalized plants have been gradually losing their importance when compared to exotic food crop varieties over the last few decades [39,40].…”

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Utilization Pattern of Indigenous and Naturalized Plants among Some Selected Rural Households of North West Province, South Africa

Omotayo

Ndhlovu

Tshwene

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Plants

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Globally, a substantial proportion of existing indigenous and naturalized foods are often neglected thereby narrowing the food-base available to humans. The current study explored the use and contribution of indigenous and naturalized plants to the households’ food-pool among 12 communities in the North West Province of South Africa. An ethnobotanical survey was conducted among 133 rural households across the 12 selected communities from the four district municipalities in North West Province, South Africa. We analyzed the utilization patterns for 31 selected indigenous and naturalized plants (grains, fruits, and vegetables) among the 133 households using two ethnobotanical indices. In reference to the checklist of 31 plants, the sampled households utilize approximately 94% (29) as staple foods, beverages, fruits and fodder. Sorghum bicolor, Vigna unguiculata, Amaranthus sp., Sclerocarya birrea, Persea americana, and Mimusops zeyheri were among the top-six plants based on the Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC, 40–83%). In terms of the different crop-types, Sorghum bicolor (grain), Amaranthus sp. (vegetable), and Sclerocarya birrea (fruit) were the top-ranked plants based on the Species Popularity Index (SPI, 0.53–0.83) among the participants. Overall, there is a need for a renaissance of indigenous and naturalized plants, which has the potential to encourage rural farmers to further embrace the cultivation of these plants on a larger scale so as to enhance food security in the rural communities.

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Section: Ethnobotanical Indices and Use-categories For The 31 Selectementioning

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Utilization Pattern of Indigenous and Naturalized Plants among Some Selected Rural Households of North West Province, South Africa

Omotayo

Ndhlovu

Tshwene

et al. 2020

Plants

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“…In considering these benefits to fishers' wellbeing, it is useful to think through the lived experiences of commoners as they perform processes of commoning. As urban foraging work points out, "fringe ecologies" and interstitial spaces provide essential cultural and material benefits (Garekae & Shackleton, 2020;Hurley et al, 2008, p. 558;. Accessing urban nature-and the care that urban spaces are capable of-is critical to realizing these benefits (Charnley et al, 2018).…”

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Contested Commoning: Urban Fishing Spaces and Community Wellbeing

Boucquey

Fly

2021

International Journal of the Commons

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This paper analyzes how the more-than-human elements and relationships of urban fishing-piers, bridges, fish, social interactions-constitute spaces that offer the possibility of affecting community wellbeing. In particular, it applies theories of commoning to questions of how urban fishing spaces might affect the social and material dimensions of wellbeing. The paper argues that approaching ideas of community wellbeing from a commoning perspective enables deeper analysis of the 'messiness' and contradictions that can arise in accounting for the complex socio-natural interactions that affect wellbeing. The paper examines these questions via a case study of urban fishing in the Tampa Bay region of Florida. Employing survey, interview, and field research, the paper asks how urban fishing spaces support processes of commoning that could lead to increases in wellbeing, while also highlighting where disruptions in the ecological, physical, or social spaces involved in commoning might decrease wellbeing. The paper finds evidence that commoning can increase community wellbeing in concrete ways (e.g., by contributing to collective food security, knowledge-sharing, exposure to economic and racial diversity, and shared experiences), but that these processes and infrastructures are simultaneously precarious and subject to social strife, changes in legality, and ecological contamination which can decrease wellbeing. The paper suggests that particularly for geographies of urban wellbeing, adopting a commoning lens is useful for better parsing how the elements of and challenges to wellbeing are intertwined, and where possibilities might exist for addressing these challenges. The paper contributes to theoretical discussions about the characteristics of commoning, links between commoning and socionatural wellbeing, and shifting understandings of urban space and infrastructures of care.

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“…The latter showed that ecotourism through land sharing reinforces village land rights, while ecotourism through land appropriation undermines the land rights of an entire village or ethnic minority. Cultural and spiritual values were addressed in the context of conservation of church forests (Wassie et al 2005;Amare et al 2016) and NTFP harvesting, including the harvesting of wild plants for health care, the value of home gardens, and foraging (Gbedomon et al 2015;Towns and van Andel 2016;Garekae and Shackleton 2020). Some studies also stress the fact that cultural diversities are not addressed when implementing reforestation or conservation efforts (Cormier-Salem and Panfili 2016).…”

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Forest-based bioeconomy in sub-Saharan Africa: Looking at benefits and burdens from a social sustainability standpoint

Rosa¹,

Martius²

2021

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Acknowledgement v Summary vi Rationale and purpose of the study viii highlighting the need for an increase in social safety nets. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) CIFOR advances human well-being, equity and environmental integrity by conducting innovative research, developing partners' capacity, and actively engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders to inform policies and practices that affect forests and people. CIFOR is a CGIAR Research Center, and leads the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). Our headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia, with offices in Nairobi

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Urban foraging of wild plants in two medium-sized South African towns: People, perceptions and practices

Cited by 39 publications

References 30 publications

Utilization Pattern of Indigenous and Naturalized Plants among Some Selected Rural Households of North West Province, South Africa

Utilization Pattern of Indigenous and Naturalized Plants among Some Selected Rural Households of North West Province, South Africa

Contested Commoning: Urban Fishing Spaces and Community Wellbeing

Forest-based bioeconomy in sub-Saharan Africa: Looking at benefits and burdens from a social sustainability standpoint

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