Food sovereignty, as a critical alternative to the concept of food security, is broadly defined
as the right of local peoples to control their own food systems, including markets, ecological …

Strong feedback between global biodiversity loss and persistent, extreme rural poverty are
major challenges in the face of concurrent food, energy, and environmental crises. This …

For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual
blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual …

Society for Educational Studies Annual Book Prize winner: 2nd Prize This ground-breaking
volume draws upon a rich and variegated range of methodologies to understand more fully …

Context The global drylands cover 41% of the terrestrial surface and support millions of
pastoralists and host diverse flora and fauna. Ongoing socioeconomic and environmental …

A wild food ethnobotanical field study was conducted in the Ishkoman and Yasin valleys,
located in the Hindukush Mountain Range of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. These …

Religious beliefs and practices have long influenced human perceptions and uses of nature.
Animals in particular play a prominent role in magico-religious practices and given the …

Natural scientists are increasingly being encouraged to engage with local and Indigenous
communities when carrying out research. However, these attempts at collaboration can …

Conservation conflicts are pressing social and environmental sustainability issues, and the
complex underlying causes and escalating factors of such conflicts can often be difficult to …

Abstract Background Ethnobotany in South-Eastern Europe is gaining the interest of several
scholars and stakeholders, since it is increasingly considered a key point for the re …