Discover neglected wild food sourcesthat can also be used as medicine!
The long-standing notion of food as medicine, medicine as food, can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional s
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Andrea Pieroni, PhD, is an ethnobotanist/pharmacognosist and Lecturer in Pharmacognosy at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He is also part-time associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of a European Union-funded research project dealing with a circumMediterranean ethnobotanical study on wild and neglected plants for food and medicine. Lisa Leimar Price, PhD, is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow for Social Scientists in Agriculture, a Ford Foundation Fellow, and a Fulbright Fellow. Prior to joining Wageningen University, she was a senior scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.