interessant, weil ich eben aus Kartitsch komme :-)
ICE 2004 - Panel 6: "CHRISTANELL, ANJA; Christian R. Vogl.
Institute for Organic Farming, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
anja.christanell@gmx.net, christian.vogl@boku.ac.at.
THE GATHERING OF WILD PLANTS IN KARTITSCH (EASTERN TYROL, AUSTRIA) AND THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES ON THE LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
Collecting of non-cultivated plant species in natural habitats is a traditional activity of farmers in Alpine regions. This study analyses the knowledge of 31 farmers in Kartitsch (Eastern Tyrol) about collected species based upon i) freelists about collected plant species, ii) pile sorts to elicit the local classification system for collected plants iii) semistructured and iv) structured interviews on knowledge of respondents and plant use. The gathering of wild plants is still a lively part of the daily, social life of the farmers, and is the responsibility of women. The most frequently mentioned species (in total 87 species) were Vaccinium myrtillus (94%), Arnica montana (81%), Vaccinium vitis-idaea (75%), Picea abies (69%) and Urtica dioica (69%). The respondents mostly classified species according to the plant parts that they were using. The main reasons for gathering wild plants were emotional motives (31%) and health (26%). The non-cultivated plants are primarily used for nutrition and healing purposes. Socio-environmental changes (due to tourism or agricultural production) have an influence on the utilization of collected species and on religious practices related to the utilization of these species."
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