@article{Cakpo:262824,
      recid = {262824},
      author = {Cakpo,Yvonne Tété and Tovissode, C. and Biaou, C. and I.  Toko and Lougbegnon, T. and Sinsin, B. and Korb, J.},
      title = {ETHNOBOTANIC ASSESSMENT OF DEBARKED MEDICINAL PLANTS IN  SOUTHERN BENIN: THE CASE OF LOKOLI SWAMPY FOREST AND LAMA  PROTECTED FOREST},
      journal = {International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental  Research},
      address = {2017-06-30},
      number = {2013-2017-1906},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {This study was focused on identifying medicinal plants  species subject to bark harvesting in two forests of  Southern Benin (Lama Protected Forest and Lokoli Swampy  Forest). Ethnobotanical survey was conducted in nine  surrounding villages of both forests. 261 survey  participants of various socio-professional groups  (traditional healers, bark collectors, farmers, and others)  answered questionnaires. Collected data provided  information about the species being debarked, diseases  treated, the frequency and debarking methods applied as  well as the people perception of their impact on the health  of trees after debarking and the sustainable palliative  debarking method applied or proposed by local population. A  total of 70 medicinal species belonging to 26 families were  identified of which 26 bark species were mostly used. The  use of tree bak was locality and socio-prefessional groups  dependents as well as ethny, age and sex. Species with  highest used score were: Khaya senegalensis, Anogeissus  leiocarpa, Dialium guineense, Adansonia digitata, Mangifera  indica and Diospyros mespiliformis in Lama Forest and  Nauclea diderrichii, Bridelia ferruginea, Syzygium  owariense and Ficus trichopoda in Lokoli Forest. The most  important human diseases recorded were stomach pains,  dysentery and frotalen. According to socio-professional  groups, Traditional healers were mostly related in tree  bark used in spirituality while Collectors harvested mainly  species involved in commercialization. Stakeholders with a  negative impact on the resources seem to be collectors  applying unsustainable debarking procedures such as tree  logging or girdling. However, certain sustainable debarking  method have been proposed such as cambium protecting (by  collectors) and botanical gardens set up (by traditional  healers).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/262824},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.262824},
}