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Table 3 Selection of ethnobotanical materials for educational purposes and activities co-organized in and with the local community

From: East meets west: using ethnobotany in ethnic urban markets of Barcelona metropolitan area (Catalonia) as a tool for biocultural exchange

Activity/Material

Year/s

Type

Collaborators

Comments [and reference, if applicable]

Bachelor’s degree final project in Pharmacy on the plant diversity of Fondo’s ethnic stores

2014–2015

Final undergraduate degree project

UB, IBB, Fondo’s inventoried stores

The student’s bachelor’s degree project was graded with honours

[19]

Flavours of the world fair (4th edition)

2015

One-day outdoor gastronomic event

Flavours of the world fair organizing committee

Participation with one stand to promote and disseminate the academic work carried out in the neighbourhood

Ethnobotanical monographs

2015

Non-academic publication

Flavours of the world fair organizing committee

Ethnobotanical monographs of 10 locally-sold plants distributed during the fair

Fondo’s plants- Ethnobotanical poster

2015

Non-academic publication

UB, IBB

Poster with ethnoculinary information for 13 locally-sold plants

Presentation of ethnobotanical research results in Fondo’s public library

2015

Non-academic colloquium

Flavours of the world fair organizing committee

 

Flavours of the world fair (5th edition)

2016

One-day outdoor gastronomic event

Flavours of the world fair organizing committee

Participation with one stand to promote and disseminate the academic work carried out in the neighbourhood

Ethnobotanical monographs

2016

Non-academic publication

Flavours of the world fair organizing committee

Ethnobotanical monographs of 13 locally-sold plants distributed during the fair

Food and culture- Ethnobotanical posters

2016

Non-academic publication

UB, IBB

10 posters on gastronomic ethnobotany

Conference proceeding book chapter on the role that ethnic food plants play in urban transculturation

2017

Academic publication

UB, IBB, Fondo’s inventoried stores

Conference proceeding on the classification of unelaborated products in cooking presented at ICEB 2014 congress in Córdoba, Spain

[43]

Article on the classification of unelaborated culinary products

2017

Academic publication

Torribera Food Studies Campus, UB-Bullipèdia partners

Co-authored with academics and chefs

[44]

Classification of unelaborated culinary products

2019

Conference presentation

Torribera Food Studies Campus, UB-Bullipèdia partners

Science and cooking

Plants connect us. Ethnobotany, language, cooking and society

2020

Academic colloquium

ODELA, UB, IBB, L’H-CLN, Fondo’s Public Library, Wenzhou restaurant

2 h online event discussing on urban ethnobotany of Santa Coloma de Gramenet

Gaudir UB university extension courses

2015–2022

Teaching in lifelong learning

UB, IBB

University extension courses on gastronomic ethnobotany from around the world including a field trip to Fondo

Article on the research results from 2014–2022

2023

Academic publication

UB, IBB

This current publication

  1. UB University of Barcelona, IBB Botanical Institute of Barcelona, ODELA The Food Observatory, L’H-CLN L’Heura-Centre for Linguistic Normalization