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Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan
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 Distric...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918957/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12030574 |
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author | Shah, Adnan Ali Badshah, Lal Khalid, Noor Shah, Muhammad Ali Manduzai, Ajmal Khan Faiz, Abdullah De Chiara, Matteo Mattalia, Giulia Sõukand, Renata Pieroni, Andrea |
author_facet | Shah, Adnan Ali Badshah, Lal Khalid, Noor Shah, Muhammad Ali Manduzai, Ajmal Khan Faiz, Abdullah De Chiara, Matteo Mattalia, Giulia Sõukand, Renata Pieroni, Andrea |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-99189572023-02-12 Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan Shah, Adnan Ali Badshah, Lal Khalid, Noor Shah, Muhammad Ali Manduzai, Ajmal Khan Faiz, Abdullah De Chiara, Matteo Mattalia, Giulia Sõukand, Renata Pieroni, Andrea Plants (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2023-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9918957/ /pubmed/36771658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12030574 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Shah, Adnan Ali Badshah, Lal Khalid, Noor Shah, Muhammad Ali Manduzai, Ajmal Khan Faiz, Abdullah De Chiara, Matteo Mattalia, Giulia Sõukand, Renata Pieroni, Andrea Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan |
title | Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan |
title_full | Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan |
title_fullStr | Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan |
title_short | Disadvantaged Economic Conditions and Stricter Border Rules Shape Afghan Refugees’ Ethnobotany: Insights from Kohat District, NW Pakistan |
title_sort | disadvantaged economic conditions and stricter border rules shape afghan refugees’ ethnobotany: insights from kohat district, nw pakistan |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9918957/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12030574 |
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