Ana Ladio

INIBIOMA · Grupo de Etnobiologia

Based on an online survey and a workshop with young ethnobiologists, we analyze the current state and future prospects of the discipline in Argentina. The research topic analysis, geographic distribution, and insights into participant motivations and challenges highlight concerns regarding professional development in the context of underfunding and...

Patriarchal biases are deeply rooted elements in the scaffolding of the oppressive system against women. They are those practices that reaffirm the belief that the biological differences that exist between women and men justify inequalities and submission over women. The existence of a gender hierarchy gives rise to a tripartite set of problems tha...

Progress toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is insufficient at a global scale. A thorough and interdisciplinary understanding of barriers and levers to sustainability, including synergies and trade-offs between SDGs, is utterly important but still limited. Ethnobiology is often advocated as a key discipline to addres...

Family farming systems face the challenge of carrying out their activities alongside Harmful Arthropods (HA), which cause damage to edible, wild, and cultivated plants that are fundamental for farmers. This case study, with farmers from the Nahuel Huapi Family Farmers Free Fair (FFAFNH, Spanish acronym), shows some distinctive elements of Local Eco...

This opinion piece, written by ethnobiologists from different parts of the world, emphasizes the importance of ethno-biology research in advancing contemporary biology, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and, especially, contributing to the ecological transition and more just and inclusive world. To ach...

This opinion piece, written by ethnobiologists from different parts of the world, emphasizes the importance of ethnobiology research in advancing contemporary biology, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and, especially, contributing to the ecological transition and more just and inclusive world. To achi...

Many of the species used in family farming systems (FFS) in Patagonia belong to the group known as neglected and underutilized species (NUS), which promote biocultural diversity and contribute to food sovereignty. Due to the scarce attention paid to NUS by agronomic sciences, little is known about their biotic pollination, although it is a well-stu...

Numerosos estudios han mostrado que si los conocimientos ecológicos locales de los niños y niñas (CELNs) son incluidos en el currículo escolar, se transforman en herramientas didácticas de integración cognitiva e intercultural. En este trabajo, analizamos tres estudios realizados con niño/as de escuelas primarias de tres contextos socioculturales d...

Resumen: Numerosos estudios han mostrado que si los conocimientos ecológicos locales de los niños y niñas (CELNs) son incluidos en el currículo escolar, se transforman en herramientas didácticas de integración cognitiva e intercultural. En este trabajo, analizamos tres estudios realizados con niño/as de escuelas primarias de tres contextos sociocul...

Progress achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is insufficient at global scale. A thorough understanding of SDG synergies and trade-offs is needed to enhance their achievement, but such understanding is still limited. Ethnobiology has been proposed as a discipline able to contribute to sustainability and finely-tuned to study these int...

Resumen El modelo de redundancia utilitaria se ha utilizado para verificar indirectamente la resiliencia de los sistemas de conocimiento de plantas beneficiosas utilizados por las poblaciones locales. A partir de las bases de este modelo y de la hipótesis de la diversificación, podemos pensar que las especies exóticas pueden entrar en los sistemas...

The production of honey for consumption is one of humans’ most intriguing activities in biocultural terms. Studies on Local Ecological Knowledge linked to Apiculture with Apis mellifera (LEKHA) are limited, particularly in Santiago del Estero (northern Argentina). In this work, we compared the LEKHA of beekeeping families in two different landscape...

Fe de Errata Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 57(3): 1-22. 2022. ttps://doi.org/10.31055/1851.2372.v57.n3.37329 Las etnoespecies comercializadas en la feria de agricultores de Bariloche (Rio Negro, Argentina) y su versatilidad en alimentos locales: Contribuciones hacia la soberanía alimentaria local. The ethnospecies traded in the Bariloche farmers’ fair (Ri...

Urban ecosystems differ from non-urban ones in the strong and rapid biocultural dynamics generated by the interactions between people from different cultures, at large spatial and temporal scales and very fast rates. This opinion piece explores the concept of urban ethnobiology as a critical field of research that investigates the complex and dynam...

Background: Horticultural fairs are spaces that promote regional agrobiodiversity, transmitting and recreating multiple knowledge and emotions between horticulturists and customers. The adaptive processes by which fairs are sustained over time in the face of socio-economic, climatic, and sanitary changes are still little known. Considering the prin...

The use of firewood as an energetic resource in various rural regions of the world is essential for the satisfaction of basic human needs. However, the role of firewood in domestic life and its link to household well-being and food sovereignty have been poorly addressed. In order to investigate these aspects, an ethnobotanical study was carried out...

Local knowledge of horticultural soils was analysed from an ethnobiological perspective in a rural population of arid Patagonian, in order to gain a deeper understanding of how the farmers classify, use and value the soil. In this large but sparsely populated territory, a group of 27 participants was selected. The farmers use an ethnoclassification...

Background The huillín (Lontra provocax, Thomas 1908) is an otter, endemic to southern Argentina and Chile. It is in danger of extinction. In the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surroundings is the only freshwater, known and stable population of huillín in Argentina. In this park, several urban and rural centers coexist with this species. The main o...

The forest of Araucaria araucana (“pewen” in Mapuche language), with its associated species of the genus Nothofagus, is unique from an evolutionary, biological and sociocultural point of view. Due to the interdependence and interrelation with the Mapuche-Pewenche people, it is considered a biocultural ecosystem. This work is a comprehensive binatio...

The utilitarian redundancy model has been used to indirectly verify the resilience of useful plant knowledge systems used by local populations. From the bases of this model and the hypothesis of diversification, we can think that exotic species can enter socio-ecological systems to fill gaps and reduce the use pressure on native species. In this st...

Background: In a rural Mapuche community of the Patagonian steppe (Chubut, Argentina), we analyzed how the use and popularity of digestive plants are affected by their aroma, the presence of dual medicinal-edible uses, their digestive versatility, biogeographical origin and accessibility. Methods: Free listing and in-depth interviews were conducted...

Identifying and understanding how resilience is generated in a local socioecological system is essential for the design of future conservation strategies. The Linca sheep represents one of the most important – but least known – biocultural legacies of the Mapuche people in Patagonia. These sheep, which arrived in the region along with the conquista...

The Patagonian steppe is a refuge for several indigenous peoples who live in relatively isolated communities, depending heavily on natural resources for their activities, health, and food security. The local ecological knowledge is a reservoir that generates full wellbeing and for which it must be the object of protection and local development. In...

Introducción y objetivos: Las ferias hortícolas urbanas constituyen emplazamientos importantes para la soberanía alimentaria (SA) de una ciudad. La riqueza de etnoespecies y alimentos locales comercializados reflejan su dinamismo. La versatilidad utilitaria (VU) representada por las diferentes preparaciones culinarias, constituye un aspecto importa...

We are experiencing an era of great and rapid changes that directly affect biocultural systems. Ethnomedical systems are complex social-ecological structures and processes affected by drivers that may lead to changes in the trajectories of these systems, or even to collapse, according to their resilience and adaptation capacity. We examine ethnomed...

Los Bosques Andino Patagónicos proveen una amplia gama de servicios ecosistémicos que incluyen servicios de provisión, regulación, soporte y culturales. Estos bosques han sido utili - zados por los habitantes originales de la Patagonia, pero con la llegada de nuevos pobladores a la región a finales del siglo XIX su utilización fue creciendo con el...

Resumen El huillín Lontra provocax es una nutria que se encuentra en peligro de extinción. Reportamos su presencia en el lago Fonck (Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi), un área de extinción previa o inexistencia. La evidencia empírica se basó en registros fotográficos y audiovisuales obtenidos por guías de pesca y pescadores. Es el primer registro de hu...

Studies on the biocultural variation of medicinal plant use in urban contexts are necessary for public health purposes. We asked: What are the main supply sites of medicinal plants in the pluricultural city of San Salvador de Jujuy, and how can we characterize them? What are the most important medicinal plants commercialized in the city? How does s...

Fuelwood is one of the main sources of energy for rural populations in many environments and ecosystems. However, little research has been done on the diversification processes associated with the use of woody plants for fuel (UWPF). This study was carried out in rural communities of three eco-regions of Argentina (the phytogeographical provinces o...

La leña constituye una de las principales fuentes de energía para las poblaciones rurales en diversos ambientes y ecosistemas. Sin embargo, poco se ha estudiado sobre los procesos de diversificación asociadas al uso combustible de plantas leñosas (UCPL). Este estudio se realizó con comunidades rurales de tres eco-regiones en Argentina (provincias f...

Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and practices persist today and continue to influence the institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, and their personal beliefs and actions. Various au...

Silvopastoral systems (SPS) are sustainable production systems, characterized by a great biodiversity and multifunctionality compared with other livestock production systems. Northern Argentine-Chilean Andean Patagonia is a complex socio-ecological system where the provision and perception of ecosystem services (ES) vary depending on multiple conte...

Animals play a significant role in many cultures around the world. The southern river otter Lontra provocax (known locally as the "huillín") is endemic to southern Argentina and Chile, and is currently in danger of extinction. Mapuche communities have always lived closely alongside their animal resources, generating unique bonds with them. The obje...

Management practices are very sensitive to socio-environmental change and the influence of market society. This case study was carried out in the Cuyín Manzano rural community, situated in a protected area within the North Patagonian UNESCO biosphere reserve. We investigate the differential practices applied by the community with regard to manageme...

The aim of this paper is to present recent advances in the microbotanical analyses of an organic residue on a potsherd from a late Holocene hunter-gatherer site in Argentine Patagonia, which is the first evidence of this kind for the processing of starchy food. Standard methods were carried out for starch grain recovery and morphometric analysis, c...

Understanding how human beings perceive and interact with the local herpetofauna is fundamental for its conservation. In this chapter, we propose looking forward to the local ecological knowledge (LEK) of the Patagonian lizards, especially the “matuasto”. The preliminary analysis of ethnohistorical sources points out the relevant role of “matuastos...

RESUMEN El ecofeminismo ha cobrado importancia entre las lideresas campesinas aborígenes y no aborígenes de América Latina. Este enfoque plantea que la dominación extractivista que propone la lógica de mercado sobre la Naturaleza, es la misma que se imprime en los cuerpos de las mujeres desde hace siglos de colonización. Ambos, son territorios-cuer...

La recoLección de piñones de pewen (araucaria araucana): una situación significativa que conecta a niños mapuches con La naturaLeza Recebido em 17 de setembro de 2019. Aceito em 03 de março de 2020. Publicado em 31 de março de 2020. resumen-Dado que la conservación ambiental dependerá de las generaciones jóvenes, considerar sus conocimientos y form...

This article will develop a series of ideas for ethnobiologists to consider in their professional field from now on. One of the things we have most learned about indigenous communities is the importance of being committed to maintaining the networks of life and the protection of diversity. Considering the warnings given by indigenous groups regardi...

The current degradation crisis in arid and semiarid lands is creating severe economic and social difficulties, aggravating the food situation and greatly affecting the least developed countries and small farmers around the world. However, little attention has been given to the wealth of knowledge held by rural livestock farmers on this phenomenon,...

A geographically diverse group of 29 ethnobiologists addresses three common themes in response to the COVID-19 global health crisis: impact on local communities, future interactions between researchers and communities, and new (or renewed) conceptual and/or applied research priorities for ethnobiology.

Background: Traditionally part of the human diet, plants with edible fleshy fruits (PEFF) contain bioactive components that may exert physiological effects beyond nutrition, promoting human health and well-being. Focusing on their food-medicine functionality, different ways of using PEFF were studied in a cross-sectional way using two approaches:...

Dado que a conservação ambiental dependerá das gerações jovens, considerar seus conhecimentos e formas de se conectar com a natureza é substancial. Uma abordagem inicial é analisar as situações naturais significativas (SNS) que geram conexões “humano-natureza”. Os objetivos deste trabalho foram investigar o conhecimento que as crianças de uma comun...

Vital for human consumption, water is a scarce resource, particularly in the arid environments of Patagonia. In this study we analysed local perspectives and the use of different water sources, based on two case studies in rural communities of Mapuche and Creole ancestry inhabiting extra-Andean Patagonia in Chubut, Argentina. Water quality was eval...

The Neotropical area is a main setting of the earliest experiences of domestication of plants, and evolutionary processes guided by humans, which continue being active in the area. Studies comprised in this Research Topic show a general panorama about similarities and particularities of processes of domestication for different plant groups and regi...

The Argentinean Patagonia berries Berberis microphylla, Berberis darwinii, and Fragaria chiloensis ssp. chiloensis f. patagonica were investigated for their polyphenol content and composition by means of liquid chromatography coupled to diode array detection and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. The in vitro antioxidant activity and...

The earliest studies on domestication and the origins of agriculture identified the Americas, particularly the Neotropics, as one of the settings with the earliest experiences of these processes in the world (Darwin 1859, 1868, de Candolle 1882; Vavilov 1926). For a long time, Mesoamerica and the Andean region were considered the main areas of orig...

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Patagonia is the southernmost part of the South American continent including Chile and Argentina. Berries and wild fruits have been gathered by the native Patagonians as food and medicine for over 14,000 years. The economic potential of the native berries as health promoting and relevant sources of bioactive substan...

The aim of this chapter is to foster enthusiasm and provide basic knowledge and guidelines for making the use of audio and especially video recording techniques an integral part of ethnobiological research.

This work investigates the therapeutic value of animals to rural farmers who live on the central plateau of Chubut, Argentina. Open and in­depth interviews were carried out with 35 rural farmers from Sierra Rosada, Sierra Ventana, El Escorial and Telsen. A total of 16 biological species (12 wild and 4 domestic animals) were involved in treatment (3...

The use of biomass as an energy resource is key to the subsistence and development of diverse rural populations throughout the world. Particularly, the study of seasonal variation in firewood consumption contributes knowledge that can be used in detailed community management of this resource. In a rural community of the Patagonian steppe, seasonal...

This work focuses on the study of signs given to humans by domestic and wild vertebrates. These signs are interpreted culturally by settlers who live on the Central Patagonian Plateau and are taken into account in making decisions relating to their lives as subsistence livestock farmers. Open and in-depth interviews were carried out with 20 livesto...

el Jueves 6 y viernes 7 de setiembre de 2018 Horario: 9 hs-16:30 hs en el CCT Patagonia Norte. Cualquier informacion ver Facebook grupo de etnobiologia. El Grupo de Etnobiología INIBIOMA organiza las III JEC donde expondremos los trabajos etnoecológicos realizados por el grupo y reflexionaremos sobre el quehacer de la disciplina en la región. Adem...

RESUMEN.-Los habitantes de la meseta patagónica de la provincia de Chubut, Argentina, han basado su supervivencia en múltiples estrategias, generando diversos vínculos vitales y recíprocos con la fauna. Con el tiempo, muchas de estas familias mapuches, tehuelches y criollas han cons-truido una identidad criancera que se crea y recrea en el presente...

Background: This study aimed to investigate the local botanical knowledge of native food plants in three rural communities, located in the semiarid region of Paraíba State, Brazil, verifying possibilities of differences of knowledge among communities and between men and women. Methods: Semi-structured interviews about native plant knowledge and...

A study was undertaken of the herbolarium of a migrant Bolivian population living in San Salvador de Jujuy (Jujuy, Argentina) in conditions of marked social and health vulnerability; they also suffer strong stigmatization processes. Using an ethnobotanical approach, open and semi-structured interviews were conducted with adults. A total of 89 medic...

Araucaria forest is a sub-tropical component of the Atlantic Forest Biome, occurring between 18 and 30° S latitude, and 500–1,800 m altitude in Southern and Southwestern Brazil and Northwestern Argentina. In recent history (Twentieth century), this forest has undergone non-sustainable exploitation and reduction in area dedicated to agricultural and...

Oxalis adenophylla Gillies ex Hook. & Arn., is a native herb of the Subantartic Forest and Stepps of Patagonia. O. adenophylla has multiple uses and a high cultural value for many local populations of Patagonia. The leaves are used to treat fever, their roots are edible, and the plant is employed as ornamental. Despite their local cultural importan...

Up to now, the processes of domestication of urban landscapes have been little studied. The public green spaces in the city of Bariloche, an enclave with growing urbanization which lies within the Andino Norpatagonica Biosphere Reserve, offer an opportunity to evaluate cultural molding of the environment. We analyzed different management methods of...

En la medida en que un obituario representa un recorrido sobre el significado de la vida de alguien que falleció recientemente, el de Eduardo H. Rapoport (“Eddy”) debería ser una especie de espiral ascendente o un calidoscopio colorido. Su legado nunca será recordado por convenciones rígidas o lineales. Evocar a Eddy es pensar en su genialidad y en...

Efforts have been made to understand the processes that lead to the introduction of exotic species into local pharmacopoeias. Among those efforts, the diversification hypothesis predicts that exotic plants are introduced in local medical systems to amplify the repertoire of knowledge related to the treatment of diseases, filling blanks that were no...

Prisma Checklist for this systematic review. (DOC)

Criteria to define the study risk of bias (extracted from Medeiros et al. [11, 12]) for this meta-analysis on the role of exotic medicinal plants in local Brazilian communities. (DOC)

Raw data for the systematic review on medicinal plant use by Brazilian local populations. H: Herb; S: Shrub; T: Tree; N: Native; E: Exotic; CIPD: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases, PCP: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium; DEA: Diseases of the eye and adnexa; DEMP: Diseases of the ear and mastoid process; DSST: Diseases of the skin and...

Ecosystems, their components, processes and functions are all subject to management by human populations, with the purpose of adapting the environments to make them more habitable and ensuring the availability and continuity of subsistence resources. Although a lot of work has been carried out on resources of alimentary or medicinal interest, littl...

From an ecological perspective the use of firewood species implies chronic pressure on wood vegetation, but from a biocultural point of view the implications are more systemic and complex. The objective of this work was to make a comprehensive analysis of the biocultural characteristics of firewood plants used by two rural communities in arid Patag...

Several reports have shown that communities of small farmers are the most vulnerable to global environmental change (GEC). Others have revealed that societies which can count on a rich body of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) are more resilient in facing this challenge, since their behaviour is already adaptive in character. Within this scena...