Evidence that cultural food practices of Adi women in Arunachal Pradesh,India,improve social-ecological resilience:insights for Sustainable Development Goals

作     者：Ranjay K.Singh Arvind Kumar Anshuman Singh Poonam Singhal 

作者机构：College of Horticulture and ForestryCentral Agricultural UniversityPasighatArunachal Pradesh 791102India ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research InstituteKarnalHaryana 132001India University of HyderabadHyderabadTelanganaIndia 

出 版 物：《Ecological Processes》 (生态过程（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第9卷第1期

页      面：327-345页

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学科分类：083001[工学-环境科学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 08[工学] 09[农学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：This study was financially supported by National Innovation Foundation-India Ahemdabad and Central Agricultural University Pasighat Arunachal Pradesh India through research projects on traditional foods and Rural Horti-culture Work Experience 

主　　题：Adi women Arunachal Pradesh Conservation Diverse ecosystems SDGs Traditional food species 

摘      要：Introduction:Sustainable use of biocultural diversity can help achieve Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)in many *** tribal communities of bio-culturally rich Northeastern India rely heavily on local food resources and knowledge for livelihood *** this study with Adi women of East Siang district,Arunachal Pradesh,India,we aimed to understand(i)access and use patterns for biocultural plants and animal species from diverse ecosystems and(ii)species diversity and conservation strategies deployed by *** employed a novel participatory approach called“recipe contestto mobilize Adi women from 15 randomly selected remote and transitional *** collected through interviews,focus group discussions and transect walks from 75 women,were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative ***:We found that traditional local food was linked intricately with women’s knowledge,access patterns,and socio-cultural *** an end-user perspective,remote Adi villages had more widespread use of plant species(14 as food;34 as food-cum-ethnomedicine and 13 as income-generating species)and animal(17)as food in remote than in transitional ***,there were significant differences(p0.000;0244 and 0.000,respectively)across the social groups for use of plant-and animal-derived food and *** different land use systems(i.e.,Jhum lands,home gardens,and morang forests),the highest diversity for food plant was found in home gardens while that for food-cum-ethnomedicinal plants and animal species was observed in morang *** women apply traditional agronomic,cultural,and harvest strategies,based on local knowledge and institutions and varying with social systems,to conserve their key local *** correlations(r=0.63 to 0.92)were seen between conservation and use of food and animal *** knowledge on these aspects was linked intricately to the socio-cultural milieu and is transmitted inter-generationa