Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees' Ethnobotany : Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan
Shah, Adnan Ali (University of Peshawar)
Badshah, Lal (University of Peshawar)
Khalid, Noor (University of Peshawar)
Shah, Muhammad Ali (Islamia College Peshawar)
Manduzai, Ajmal Khan (COMSATS University Islamabad)
Faiz, Abdullah (Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo)
De Chiara, Matteo (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales)
Mattalia, Giulia (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Sõukand, Renata (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Pieroni, Andrea (Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo)

Data:	2023
Resum:	The study of migrants' ethnobotany can help to address the diverse socio-ecological factors affecting temporal and spatial changes in local ecological knowledge (LEK). Through semi-structured and in-depth conversations with ninety interviewees among local Pathans and Afghan refugees in Kohat District, NW Pakistan, one hundred and forty-five wild plant and mushroom folk taxa were recorded. The plants quoted by Afghan refugees living inside and outside the camps tend to converge, while the Afghan data showed significant differences with those collected by local Pakistani Pathans. Interviewees mentioned two main driving factors potentially eroding folk plant knowledge: (a) recent stricter border policies have made it more difficult for refugees to visit their home regions in Afghanistan and therefore to also procure plants in their native country; (b) their disadvantaged economic conditions have forced them to engage more and more in urban activities in the host country, leaving little time for farming and foraging practices. Stakeholders should foster the exposure that refugee communities have to their plant resources, try to increase their socio-economic status, and facilitate both their settling outside the camps and their transnational movement for enhancing their use of wild plants, ultimately leading to improvements in their food security and health status.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Ethnobotany ; Ethnoveterinary ; Local ecological knowledge ; Medicinal plants ; Refugees ; Wild food plants
Publicat a:	Plants, Vol. 12, Issue 3 (January 2023) , art. 574, ISSN 2223-7747

DOI: 10.3390/plants12030574
PMID: 36771658

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