Local Food Plants of Brazil

ISBN-13: 9783030691417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Opis

There has been growing academic interest in local food plants. This is a subject that lies at the frontiers of knowledge of various areas, such as environmental sciences, nutrition, public health, and humanities. To date, however, we do not have a book bringing these multi-disciplinary perspectives to bear on this complex field. 

This book presents the current state of knowledge on local Brazilian food plants through a multidisciplinary approach, including an overview of food plants in Brazil, as well as comprehensive nutritional data. It compiles basic theories on the interrelationship between biodiversity and food and nutrition security, as well as ethnobotanical knowledge of local Brazilian food plants. Additionally, this title provides various methods of learning and teaching the subject, including through social media, artificial intelligence, and through workshops, among others.

Spis treści

Preface

Part 1. Basics on Food Plants and Biodiversity in a Multidisciplinary Approach

Food Biodiversity Key Concepts

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Food Systems towards Food and Nutrition Security: The Food Biodiversity Role

Cecília Rocha

Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity and Food Cultures

Jean-Pierre Poulain

Unconventional Food Plants: Food or Medicine?

Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior

The Potential of Unconventional Food Plants for Improving Diets and Nutrition

Danny Hunter

Part 2. Brazilian Food Plants: An Overview

Brazilian Unconventional Food Plants and National Policies to Strengthen Food and Nutrition Security through Biodiversity

Daniela M. de Oliveira Beltrame

Food Plants from Brazilian Biodiversity as a Source of Bioactive Compounds

Maria das Graças Lins Brandão

Natural Toxins in Brazilian Unconventional Food Plants: A Review

Fillipe Oliveira Pereira

Part 3. Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Brazilian Food Plants

Brazilian Food Plants Reported by Scientific Travelers and Naturalists: Key Plants from the Past to the Future

Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros

Brazilian Food Plants and Indigenous People: Trends in Archaeobotany

Mariana Franco Cassino

Famine Foods: Thoughts from a Caatinga Research Experience

Viviany Teixeira do Nascimento

Part 4. Nutritional Composition Data on Brazilian Food Plants by Biome

Food Plants in Cerrado

Leonardo Luiz Borges

Food Plants in Caatinga

Daline Fernandes de Souza Araújo

Food Plants in Pampas

Mariana Oliveira Ramos

Food Plants in Amazonia

Nilson Evelázio de Souza

Food Plants in Pantanal

Ieda Maria Bortolotto

Food Plants in Atlantic Rainforest

Veridiana Vera de Rosso

Part 5. Consumption of Brazilian Food Plants

Challenges to Assess Sustainable Diets in Nutritional Science: A Case Study in Caatinga Biome

Michelle Jacob

Potential for Popularization of Unconventional Food Plants Based on Local Perception

Patricia Muniz de Medeiros

Potential of Unconventional Food Plants Value Chains

Rafael Ricardo Vasconcelos da Silva

Food Plants of Brazilian's Sociobiodiversity in the National School Feeding Program

Ana Laura Benevenuto de Amorim

Part 6. Learning and Teaching Brazilian Food Plants

E-Learning through Social Networking Sites: A Case Study from Facebook

André Benedito

Plant Identification Using Artificial Intelligence: Innovative Strategies for Teaching Food Biodiversity

Elias Jacob

A Garden Laboratory: Food Biodiversity Research Skills for Nutrition Students

Thiago Perez Jorge

The "PANC na City" and "Horta City Lapa" Experiences: Learning and Teaching on Unconventional Food Plants in the Brazilian Urban Context

Neide Rigo

Food Sovereignty for Lunch: Workshops in an Unconventional Farm

Valdely Kinupp

Index

O autorze

Prof. Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque received his Ph.D. in biology in 2001 from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. He is Full Professor of the Department of Botany at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil. In 2011, he led the founding of new Ph.D. program in Ethnobiology and Nature Conservation. Albuquerque has published around 316 journal articles, 200 chapter’s book and edited or authored 50 books (including new editions and translations).  Albuquerque has served as editor of various peer-reviewed journals, and in 2011 co-founded the journal Ethnobiology and Conservation as Co-Editor-in-Chief.

Prof. Michelle Jacob is a professor in the Nutrition Department and the postgraduate program of Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. She is the founder of LabNutrir (www.nutrir.com.vc), a community garden laboratory in an undergraduate nutrition program that brings together local plants and people. The United Nations in 2018 recognized the LabNutrir as a reference in the application of the Right to Food Guidelines, especially guideline 11, i.e., education and awareness-raising. Dr. Jacob's research interests relate to food and nutrition security, sustainable diets, ethnonutrition, and food systems.

Blurb

There has been growing academic interest in food plants. This is a subject that lies at the frontiers of knowledge of various areas, such as environmental sciences, nutrition, public health, and humanities. To date, however, we do not have a book bringing these multi-disciplinary perspectives to bear on this complex field. 

This book presents the current state of knowledge on Brazilian food plants through a multidisciplinary approach, including an overview of food plants in Brazil, as well as comprehensive nutritional data. It compiles basic theories on the interrelationship between biodiversity and the security of food and nutrition, ethnobotanical knowledge of Brazilian food plants, as well as various methods of learning and teaching, including through social media, artificial intelligence, and through workshops.