RESEARCH THEMES

· Ethnobotany: traditional foraging; folk perceptions, categorizations, and uses of wild food plants

· Food heritage: neglected ingredients, domestic food-medicines, traditional fermented foods

· Human ecology and bio-cultural diversity: cross-cultural and diachronic analyses of LEK (local environmental knowledge) systems; cultural adaptation processes

STUDY AREAS AND COMMUNITIES

· Cultural boundaries, minorities, and Diasporas esp. in South-East Europe and the Middle East

RESEARCH PROJECTIONS/RELEVANCE

· Strategies for fostering local food heritage

· Sustainable rural development

· New gastronomies

· Food security and food sovereignty

· History of plant uses

· Culturally-sensitive public health/nutritional policies