Socioeconomic Dimensions of Wild Food Plant Use During the Conflict in Syria
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41340%2F23%3A96489" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41340/23:96489 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09579-6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09579-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12231-023-09579-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12231-023-09579-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Socioeconomic Dimensions of Wild Food Plant Use During the Conflict in Syria
Original language description
Wild plants have served as a food source for humans since ancient times. The use of such foods particularly increases when the availability or accessibility of conventional foods is limited due to emergency situations, such as conflicts. Eleven years of the war in Syria have caused substantial socioeconomic and cultural changes, and have led to widespread food insecurity across the country. Our study seeks to scrutinize the impact of socioeconomic factors (e.g., age, gender, education, household size, direct involvement in the conflict, and household income) on the use of wild food plants during the conflict. The study was conducted in the coastal region of Syria between March 2020 and March 2021. Fifty respondents (26 women and 24 men) were interviewed in-depth on their use of wild plants during the current economic conditions resulting from the conflict. Statistical analysis revealed that the number of used species increased with informant age, while it declined with the increase in annual household income. Informant gender was a predictor for both reliance on wild plants and frequency of use. These findings may be crucially important to understand the effect of socioeconomic conditions on human behavior towards natural resources in crisis conditions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ECONOMIC BOTANY
ISSN
0013-0001
e-ISSN
0013-0001
Volume of the periodical
77
Issue of the periodical within the volume
SEP 2023
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
267-281
UT code for WoS article
001028854100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85165212330