| Abstract: |
As communities experience economic development the value of traditional resources is typically reassessed. How much people currently know about particular indigenous food plants, and the attitudes they express about them, are seen as means to predict whether or not the plants will remain a part of the local diet and if they will persist as cultivated, tended, or wild species in a landscape transformed by modernization. To address this subject, populations in four villages, and two educational institutions in the northeastern region of Thailand, were asked to identify certain food plants from photographs and supply some information about each species. The results suggest that as more opportunites become available for education, and as migration to urban centers continues, knowledge and use of traditional food plants will decrease.
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