The Maasai and Barbaig pastoral communities possess an enormous range of IK on animal health, forage plants and range management, which greatly increases animal survival and overall animal productivity, and thus household food security.

Despite its overwhelming potential, the knowledge of...

The right to food is of particular importance to vulnerable groups, amongst which are indigenous peoples. This paper analyses how right to food is relevant to indigenous peoples and how the implementation of the right to food can benefit them....

Indigenous peoples, like everyone else, have a right to adequate food and a fundamental right to be free from hunger. This was stipulated in Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 and constitutes...

This study finds its origins in the field of biology and anthropology; and more precisely in ethno-botany. This discipline, which examines the dynamic relationship between humans and their natural environment, allows us to study the relationship between human groups in...

The primary purpose of this book is to describe and to reference the published literature on the nutritional properties, the botanical characteristics and the ethnic uses of traditional food plants of Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Since it is recognized that Canadian...