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Why is it important to preserve the knowledge about WFPs through generations for biodiversity?

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Why is it important to preserve the knowledge about WFPs through generations for biodiversity?

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At present, human population rely on a small number of cultivated species, domesticated during the past 13,000 years that partly reduced both the beneficial and toxic effects of secondary plant metabolites. WFPs have considerable potential for the development of new crops through domestication and provide a genetic reserve for hybridization and selection.
Source: https://ethnobiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13002-016-0090-2

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The process by which human infants learn their culture

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Wayanad distirct has an area of 2136 km², where 37% of the land area is forest covered and 55% cultivated by agriculture.

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Schooling is a major problem for tribal children in Wayanad because, in spite of substantial efforts to promote it, they are not actively involved. The Community Agrobiodiversity Center of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation was aware of the threats to local knowledge and cultural identity and its relations with welfare and biodiversity management in the area, and introduced an educational program (hereafter referred to as EP) entitled "Every Child a Scientist "in Wayanad in 2001. This program was intended to foster scientific inquiry among tribal and non-tribal children, providing an alternative to normal school curricula in the area. The objectives of the EP are "to promote knowledge around biodiversity heritage and create awareness among tribal and rural youth,

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Comparing mothers' and children's wild food plant cultural valuation

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Comparing mothers' and children's wild food plant cultural valuation

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There are criteria transmission between mothers and children
in terms of perceptions of others' social attitudes
towards WFP collection and consumption, and in special
social stigma. Both mothers and their children who have
feelings of shame with respect to WFPs, gave similar explanations
for the stigmatization of those practices. For
instance both explained that they dislike other people seeing
them collecting WFPs for reasons of "shame" and "status".

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With respect to non-tribal people the children that did not participate in the EP could identify far fewer WFPs than their mothers.

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With respect to non-tribal people the children that did not participate in the EP could identify far fewer WFPs than their mothers.

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There is a growing process of social stigmatization related to WFPs, which leads to a lack of interest in WFP knowledge acquisition in children

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There is a growing process of social stigmatization related to WFPs, which leads to a lack of interest in WFP knowledge acquisition in children

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All mothers consent to the fact that they consumed more WFPs in the past.

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All mothers consent to the fact that they consumed more WFPs in the past.

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Almost half of the mothers (44%) said that they collect WFPs alone, whereas collection used to be a knowledge transmitting event. Their explanation is that children have a lack of time, or that WFPs are less available – reasons also considered by children.

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Almost half of the mothers (44%) said that they collect WFPs alone, whereas collection used to be a knowledge transmitting event. Their explanation is that children have a lack of time, or that WFPs are less available – reasons also considered by children.

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 All mothers collect WFPs, whereas not all children do.

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 All mothers collect WFPs, whereas not all children do.

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Comparing non-tribal mothers' and their children's wildfood plant knowledge

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Comparing non-tribal mothers' and their children's wildfood plant knowledge

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Non-tribal children who participated in the EP (mean = 17.4) could identify more WFPs than non-tribal mothers (mean = 11.2). Non-tribal children learned about them through EP curriculum or because of their exposure to tribal children's knowledge. On the other hand non-tribal mothers could identify more plants than non-tribal children
who did not participate in the EP (mean = 6.6), not only because children are still engaged in a learning process,
but also because there is apparently a process of cultural
erosion which mothers and children mainly blame
on school attendance, on lack of interest on their children's
part, and on decreasing availability of WFPs.

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The district is characterised with five dominant tribal groups – Kurichiya, Kuruma, Paniya,Adiya and Kattunaikka and  study includes three socio-cultural groups: two tribes (Paniya and Kuruma), and non-tribal rural communities.

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Fieldwork was conducted between July and October 2004
with a research population of 81 children, 22 teens, 57 mothers, and key informants.
Both qualitative and quantitative data gathering and analysis
tools were used. Research instruments included semi-structured
interviews, photo identification of selected WFPs, and informal key informant interviews.

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In conclusion, this study gave us five facts:

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In conclusion, this study gave us five facts:

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Practices of collection and consumption as a learning process

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Practices of collection and consumption as a learning process

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All mothers collect WFPs – providing WFPs for their
households. Study shows that most of the children (71%) collect WFPs with their mothers or other female relatives.  However,  half of the mother said that they are collecting alone recently. Even more, with respect to non-tribal people, those children that did not participate
in the EP could identify far less WFPs than their
mothers did. This is alarming, since there is also an
increasing process of WFP stigmatization.

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Western Ghats along with its geographical extension in the wet zone of Sri Lanka are now considered one of the "hottest hotspots" of biodiversity. 

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Western Ghats along with its geographical extension in the wet zone of Sri Lanka are now considered one of the "hottest hotspots" of biodiversity. 

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Western Ghats of India is known for occurrence of a range of wild food plants. Arora &Pandey, (1996) reported 1532 wild food species as edible, mostly from the Western Ghats. Wayanad District is an area with great biological diversity where the tribal groups and other poor non-tribal peoples greatly depend on wildfood resources for their subsistence – particularly on wildfood plants (WFPs).

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Western Ghats of India is known for occurrence of a range of wild food plants. Arora &Pandey, (1996) reported 1532 wild food species as edible, mostly from the Western Ghats. Wayanad District is an area with great biological diversity where the tribal groups and other poor non-tribal peoples greatly depend on wildfood resources for their subsistence – particularly on wildfood plants (WFPs).