Alfred Nyero

Wild Food Plants in and Around Queen Elizabeth National Park

Indigenous Knowledge and Ecological Status of Wild Food Plants

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study was on wild food plants (WFPs) indigenous knowledge and their ecological status in Queen Elisabeth National Park (QENP), Uganda. The study objectives were: (1) to inventory wild food plants (WFPs) known to the communities, (2) to establish if the communities in and around QENP consume WFPs, (3) to compare indigenous knowledge related to WFPs among age groups, gender and ethnicity. (4) to determine the ecological status of selected WFPs species. Semi-structured interviews involving free listing technique with households and groups of respondents; food diary and transect walks were used to capture data. A total of 66 WFPs species were identified in the families of Solanaceae (7 species, frequency = 249) and Amaranthaceae (6 species, frequency = 501). Partial correlation showed age of the respondents as the predictor of WFPs indigenous knowledge, (p=0.011). Gender or ethnicity of the respondent did not affect WFPs knowledge, (p0.05). Nine WFPs species were recorded duringthe ecological study using the plot method in three ecosystems of grassland, woodland and forest within QENP.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 119g
• ISBN-13: 9783848429936
• ISBN-10: 3848429934
• Artikelnr.: 35247453

Autorenporträt

Mr. Alfred Nyero holds BSc. Honors degree (Chemistry, 1995); MSc. degree (Environment and Natural Resources, 2011), all from Makerere University. He worked in a Pharmaceutical Company, Unilever Uganda as a Chemist, and in Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Laboratory (Kampala, as a Researcher. Now a lecturer in Gulu University.