Promoting Local Health Traditions and Local Food Baskets: A Case Study from a Biocultural Hotspot of India
Title | Promoting Local Health Traditions and Local Food Baskets: A Case Study from a Biocultural Hotspot of India |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2022 |
Authors | AnilKumar N., Sivan V.V, Vipindas P. |
Book Title | Biodiversity-HealthSustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS) |
Volume | 7 |
Chapter | 9 |
Pagination | 177-198 |
Abstract | Degradation of socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPLs) triggered mainly by the impoverishment of biodiversity and the increasing incidence of climate catastrophes significantly challenges human health and food and nutritional security. Critical concern needs to be placed on ensuring both human and ecosystem health and contributing to nutrition-sensitive local food production and protection of SEPLs. As case points, we describe herein a few interventions and their impacts in promoting the conservation, cultivation, consumption, and commercial aspects regarding the medicinal and food plant diversity of a biocultural diversity hotspot in the Malabar region of India. The local communities of this region have historically possessed a wide array of local health traditions (LHTs) and local food baskets (LFBs) based on a landscape approach. Yet, this richness is |