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| Title |
Assessing the levels of food shortage using the traffic light metaphor by analyzing the gathering and consumption of wild food plants, crop parts and crop residues in Konso, Ethiopia
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| Published in |
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-8-30 |
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| Authors |
Dechassa Lemessa Ocho, Paul C Struik, Lisa L Price, Ensermu Kelbessa, Koshana Kolo |
| Abstract |
Humanitarian relief agencies use scales to assess levels of critical food shortage to efficiently target and allocate food to the neediest. These scales are often labor-intensive. A lesser used approach is assessing gathering and consumption of wild food plants. This gathering per se is not a reliable signal of emerging food stress. However, the gathering and consumption of some specific plant species could be considered markers of food shortage, as it indicates that people are compelled to eat very poor or even health-threatening food. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 124 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 17% |
| Researcher | 19 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 9% |
| Lecturer | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 15% |
| Unknown | 26 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 30 | 24% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 6% |
| Environmental Science | 8 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 19% |
| Unknown | 33 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 June 2015.
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#6,913,570
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Outputs from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#271
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#49,730
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#6
of 14 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 731 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its peers.
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