Quantitative Analysis on Food Ethnobotany of Talaandig Indigenous People in Sitio Tandacol, Barangay Lilingayon, Valencia City, Philippines
Keywords:
ethnobotany, indigenous people, Mindanao, food plants, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)Abstract
Biocultural erosion in the matter of failure to document Indigenous and Local Knowledge on food ethnobotany poses serious threats to food security in marginalized regions such as the Talaandig Indigenous Group in Sitio Tandacol, Barangay Lilingayon, Valencia City, Philippines. To address this, an ethnobotanical survey through semi-structured and walking interview was done to document the botanical diversity of food plants and their uses in Barangay Lilingayon through different collection sites. Quantitative ethnobotanical analysis revealed a total of 91 food plant species in Sitio Tandacol, belonging to 70 genera and 43 botanical families. Result showed a total of 1,296 use-report in all nine Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) use-categories: five species (5.49%) were documented to be classified as cereals, 28 species (30.77%) were white roots, tubers, and plantains, 12 species (13.18%) were utilized as Vitamin A rich vegetables and tubers, 38 species (41.76%) were dark green leafy vegetables, 33 species (36.26%) were categorized as other vegetables, 15 species (16.48%) were Vitamin A rich fruits, 48 species (52.75%) were other fruits, 25 species (27.47%) were legumes, nuts, seeds, and 43 species (47.25%) were categorized as spices, condiments, and beverages. The most important edible plants in the food system of Talaandig indigenous people are white roots, tubers, and root crops like Ipomoea batatas (UR= 82; UV=1.051). Utilizing indigenous and local knowledge through documentation and evaluation of gastronomically important plants could help in achieving the zero-hunger goal of the United Nations (UN SDG 2).References
Antonelli A, Fry C, Smith RJ, Simmonds MSJ, Kersey PJ, Pritchard HW, Abbo MS, Acedo C, Adams J, Ainsworth AM, Allkin B, Annecke W, Bachman SP, Bacon K, Bárrios S, Barstow C, Battison A, Bell E, Bensusan K, Zhang BG (2020) State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2020. https://www.kew.org/science/state-of-the-worlds-plants-and-fungi. (Accessed 9 October 2024).
Buenavista DP (2021) Co-production of Knowledge with Indigenous Peoples for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Higaonon Food Ethnobotany and Discovery of a New Begonia Species in Mindanao, Philippines. PhD Dissertation, Bangor University, United Kingdom. Pp.166.
Buenavista DP (2023) Indigenous knowledge is critical to food security: An ethnobotanical study of food plants utilized by the Matigsalug-Manobo tribe of Bukidnon, Philippines. International Conference of Psychology 3(1): 78–89.
Buenavista DP, Mollee E, McDonald M (2022) Any alternatives to rice? Ethnobotanical insights into the dietary use of edible plants by the Higaonon tribe in Bukidnon Province, the Philippines. Regional Sustainability 3(2): 95–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsus.2022.04.002.
Chua-Barcelo RT (2014) Ethnobotanical survey of edible wild fruits in Benguet, Cordillera Administrative Region, the Philippines. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 4(Suppl. 1): S525–S538.
FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP & WHO (2020) The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020: Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets. https://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/2020. (Accessed 9 September 2024).
Friedman J, Yaniv Z, Dafni A, Palewitch D (1986) A preliminary classification of the healing potential of medicinal plants based on a rational analysis of an ethnopharmacological field survey among Bedouins in the Negev Desert, Israel. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 16(2–3): 275–287.
Heywood VH (1999) Use and Potential of Wild Plants in Farm Households. FAO Farm Systems Management Series 15. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. 209 pp. http://www.fao.org/3/W8801E/W8801E00.htm.
Hipolito MFG (2024) A systematic literature review of the significance of the School of Living Tradition in the preservation of cultural heritage of Indigenous Peoples. International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research 5(2): 605–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.11594/ijmaber.05.02.21.
Hirai H (2015) Indigenous communities in the Philippines: A situation analysis. Yuchengco Center, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. 93pp.
Kennedy G, Ballard T, Dop M (2010) Guidelines for Measuring Household and Individual Dietary Diversity. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 53pp. https://www.fao.org/3/i1983e/i1983e.pdf.
Lynch F, Clotet JM (1967) The Bukidnon of North-Central Mindanao in 1889. Philippine Studies 15(3): 464–482.
Moore M, Alpaugh M, Razafindrina K, Trubek AB, Niles MT (2022) Finding food in the hunger season: A mixed methods approach to understanding wild plant foods in relation to food security and dietary diversity in southeastern Madagascar. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 6: 929308. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.929308.
Ollitrault P, Navarro L (2012) Fruit Breeding. Handbook of Plant Breeding 8. Springer, pp. 623–662. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0763-9.
Oluoch WA, Whitney C, Termote C, Moraa MA, Mbau JS, Kipkore W, Dawson IK (2023) Indigenous communities’ perceptions reveal threats and management options of wild edible plants in semiarid lands of northwestern Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 19: 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-023-00584-6.
Pardales JR Jr (1997) Ethnobotanical survey of edible aroids in the Philippines I: Farmers’ beliefs, experiences and uses. Philippine Journal of Crop Science, 22(1): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.5555/20093019374.
Pelser PB, Barcelona JF, Nickrent DL (2011-present) Co’s Digital Flora of the Philippines. https://www.philippineplants.org/ . (Accessed 14 October 2024).
PhilAtlas (2020) Lilingayon, Valencia, Bukidnon profile. PhilAtlas. Retrieved June 15, 2026, from https://www.philatlas.com/mindanao/r10/bukidnon/valencia/lilingayon.html
Phillips O, & Gentry AH (1993) The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: I. Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique. Economic Botany, 47(1), 15–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862203
Prance GT, Balee W, Boom BM, & Carneiro RL (1987) Quantitative ethnobotany and the case for conservation in Amazonia. Conservation Biology, 1(4), 296–310. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1987.tb00050.x
Quave CL, Pieroni A (2015) A reservoir of ethnobotanical knowledge informs resilient food security and health strategies in the Balkans. Nature Plants 1: 14021. https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2014.21.
Sarkar D, Walker-Swaney J, Shetty K (2020) Food diversity and indigenous food systems to combat diet-linked chronic diseases. Current Developments in Nutrition 4: 3–11 https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz099.
Sujarwo W, Arinasa IBK, Salomone F, Caneva G, Fattorini S (2014) Cultural erosion of Balinese indigenous knowledge of food and nutraceutical plants. Economic Botany 68(4): 426–437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-014-9288-1.
Tahir M, Abrahim A, Beyene T, Tesso H, Eshetu A, Yadeta G, Sima G (2023) The traditional use of wild edible plants in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of Mieso District, eastern Ethiopia. Tropical Medicine and Health 51: 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-023-00505-z.
Turner NJ, Łuczaj ŁJ, Migliorini P, Pieroni A, Dreon AL, Sacchetti LE (2011) Edible and tended wild plants, traditional ecological knowledge and agroecology. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 30(1–2): 198–225.
United Nations (2015) Transforming our world: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda. (Accessed 16 November 2024).
Valera HG, Mayorga J, Pede VO, Mishra AK (2022) Estimating food demand and the impact of market shocks on food expenditures: The case for the Philippines and missing price data. Q Open, 2(2), Article qoac030. https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoac030.
Whitney CW (2020) EthnobotanyR (version 3.6.3). https://github.com/CWWhitney/ethnobotanyR. (Accessed 9 September 2024).
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 The JTBC allows authors to retain the copyright of their publications without restrictions, but authors will grant the JTBC the right of first publication, and other non-exclusive publishing rights. Authors retain the right to use the substance of the article in their future works, provided that its prior publication in this journal is acknowledged.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
BY: credit must be given to the creator.
NC: Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted.
This journal provides open access to its content under CC BY-NC 4.0 on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports greater international collaboration and information exchange.
Total Views: 0
| 
Total Downloads: 0
