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Dr. Michele Fontefrancesco
University of Gastronomic Sciences,

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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology. His research focused on local development, with particular attention to entrepreneurship and sustainable development, and the construction of local know-how. He has conducted his fieldworks mainly in Italy and East Africa, with participation to research conducted in Eastern Europe, Iran and the United Kingdom. He published numerous works in Italy and internationally; among them: The End of the City of Gold?: Industrial and Economic Crisis in an Italian Jewellery Town (Cambridge Scholars, 2013) and Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy: A Viewpoint from Economic Anthropology (Palgrave, 2020).

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Review
Published: 24 August 2021 in Sustainability
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The safeguarding and promotion of food heritage are often considered as a possible way for achieving social and cultural sustainability objectives. This literature review investigates some of the dynamics underlying the heritagisation of food and explores the risks of this process. It focuses mainly on anthropological, geographical, and sociological publications. Overall, it aims to shed light on the strengths and limitations of food heritagisation regarding the improvement of the socio-cultural sustainability of the food system. The analysis highlights cross-cutting risks, namely the omission of tangible and intangible elements of the local food system, and the exclusion of key stakeholders from the recognition and institutionalisation of food heritage. The review highlights the strict interdependence between intangible and tangible elements during food heritagisation, and assesses how local and global interactions can activate and shape this process. It sheds light on the need to pay more attention to the factors, actors, and relationships underpinning the emergence and recognition of food and food-related elements as part of the local heritage.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Paolo Corvo; Andrea Pieroni. Recognising, Safeguarding, and Promoting Food Heritage: Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Sustainable Food Systems. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9510 .

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Paolo Corvo, Andrea Pieroni. Recognising, Safeguarding, and Promoting Food Heritage: Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Sustainable Food Systems. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (17):9510.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Paolo Corvo; Andrea Pieroni. 2021. "Recognising, Safeguarding, and Promoting Food Heritage: Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Sustainable Food Systems." Sustainability 13, no. 17: 9510.

Editorial article
Published: 21 July 2021 in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
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Editorial on the Research Topic Traditional Food Knowledge: New Wine Into Old Wineskins? The call for this Research Topic focused on Traditional Food Knowledge (TFK) and its potential for revitalization. Although over the past two decades studies of Traditional Knowledge have greatly increased according to the peer-reviewed literature, these have remained largely focused on ecological, botanical, and medical folk knowledge, while dedicating much less attention to knowledge about animals, foods or rituals. Moreover, while such studies have described mainly the use of biological organisms or systems and their ways of processing, they only have sparingly addressed their associated sociocultural values. Also, in the domain of TFK, field studies have unevenly looked at the processes through which TFK can be implemented in local, community-based programs (see articles published over the past decade in Journal of Ethnic Foods; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine; Journal of Ethnobiology; Economic Botany; Food, Culture & Society). The current Research Topic offered scholars an opportunity to fill this gap, by exploring new strategies for local production based on the actualization of TFK, promoting locally-owned sustainable tourism and gastronomy with traditional products, and fostering collaborative inclusive platforms of producers, chefs, food activists, local institutions, consumers, and communities. Moreover, this Special Issue intended to invite scholars to look beyond an often-romanticized vision of TFK and to explore the ambiguities of its valorization, i.e., the conundrum generated by commoditization of local knowledge. Four contributions in this Research Topic bring to the forefront the issue of knowledge erosion, its causes, and the potential for revitalization of TFK. Price et al. investigated the trajectories of food oppression experienced by Indigenous peoples in a contemporary context that have led to the marginalization of their traditional foodways, leading to their overall disempowerment. This discussion is furthered by Joseph and Turner who looked at the processes of erosion and revitalization of TFK among Indigenous peoples in Northwestern North America. While these authors pointed out the impact of Western colonization as a main factor in the loss of TFK, they framed the reappropriation of foods and food practices within an ongoing process of empowerment undertaken by Indigenous communities and supported by academic, governmental, and other allies. Moving the focus to the Sierra Norte de Madrid in Spain, Aceituno-Mata et al. considered the loss in the use of wild food plants and highlighted new trends of leisure and food consumption in Spanish society that are boosting the revival of this practice. Finally, Joseph and Voeks investigated changes in TFK among Indian immigrant women in Southern California, exploring the role of migration as the context for adaptation and transformation of TFK. Three articles in this Research Topic expand the discussion by considering the link between TFK, environmental conservation, and community resilience. Campbell et al. looked at the Millbank region in Jamaica and showed the role of wild food harvesting as a crucial resource for communities to mitigate food insecurity and maintain the well-being of rural households. Similarly, Castagnetti et al., who undertook a study in Darchula in Far Western Nepal, looked at the interconnection between the community's farming and religious year circle and showed the importance of understanding religious practices to design and implement sustainable development policies for food sovereignty. Moreover, in the wake of growing recognition of Faroese Cuisine, Svanberg explored the role of animal fat in the traditional foodways of the islands. Facing the disappearance of TFK, he suggests that the future of Faroese cuisine lies in the maintenance and continuation of local knowledge about traditional ways to extract different types of animal fat and process it into locally made dishes. Three other articles in this Research Topic consider the relationship between the revival of TFK and the socio-economic forces that (can) promote it. In this respect, Vandebroek et al. analyzed the continued sociocultural relevance of root tonics and their potential for sustainable development for the benefit of local artisanal producers. The value of these drinks as biocultural heritage is rooted in the country's deep cultural history since Transatlantic slavery and also shows their capacity to embody the cultural values of contemporary Jamaican society. Similary, Zocchi and Fontefrancesco explored the sociocultural causes of the revival of traditional products in the restaurant sector in Nakuru County, Kenya. They suggest that the recent revival of these products is associated with the economic and logistic factors of the sector and, above all, because these foods respond to the cultural needs of contemporary Kenyan society in terms of food safety. Finally, Fontefrancesco and Zocchi described the decline and revival of asparagus production in Mezzago, Italy, triggered by the organization of a local food festival, which shows the slippery divide between commodification of TFK and its revitalization through tourism. Imagining the future of TFK studies, we propose that increasing attention to the actual (realized) or potential (envisioned) impacts of knowledge transformation highlighted in this Research Topic (erosion, revitalization, resilience, reappropriation, empowerment, and rural development) will help to expand the focus of studies in this field of ethnobiology. However, in order to build bridges, researchers and local communities should remain engaged in a long-term dialogue to address issues such as commodification and decolonization and co-create projects together. Ideally, these projects should not only be designed to satisfy intellectual curiosity, but also focus in non-fragmentary ways on the multidimensional...

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Andrea Pieroni; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Ina Vandebroek. Editorial: Traditional Food Knowledge: New Wine Into Old Wineskins? Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2021, 5, 1 .

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Andrea Pieroni, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Ina Vandebroek. Editorial: Traditional Food Knowledge: New Wine Into Old Wineskins? Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2021; 5 ():1.

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Andrea Pieroni; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Ina Vandebroek. 2021. "Editorial: Traditional Food Knowledge: New Wine Into Old Wineskins?" Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5, no. : 1.

Book chapter
Published: 18 May 2021 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Social Innovation: Global and Local Strategies for Socio-cultural Change. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2021, 998 -1006.

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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Social Innovation: Global and Local Strategies for Socio-cultural Change. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2021; ():998-1006.

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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. 2021. "Social Innovation: Global and Local Strategies for Socio-cultural Change." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 998-1006.

Research article
Published: 31 March 2021 in Food, Culture & Society
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Food festivals are rising in popularity across the world. In particular, in Italy, they are among the main touristic summer events. In the past decade, the country has witnessed the proliferation of these feasts, in particular in rural areas. This article investigates this success exploring the socio-cultural needs that move rural communities to organize the events. Through exploration of the ethnographic case of San Rocco and its Ravioli Festival, the article points out the interconnection between the organization of the event and the effects of the ongoing marginalization experienced by the community. Highlighting the material divide that separates urban centers and rural areas, the article suggests that the organization of a food festival is a grassroots festive strategy adopted by rural communities in order to mitigate and counter the impact of rural marginalization and its consequences.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Food festivals in Italy: a festive strategy against rural marginalization. Food, Culture & Society 2021, 1 -15.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Food festivals in Italy: a festive strategy against rural marginalization. Food, Culture & Society. 2021; ():1-15.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. 2021. "Food festivals in Italy: a festive strategy against rural marginalization." Food, Culture & Society , no. : 1-15.

Journal article
Published: 01 February 2021 in Sustainability
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The issue of foraging for wild food plants among migrants and relocated communities is an important one in environmental studies, especially in order to understand how human societies rearrange their practices linked to nature and how they adapt to new socioecological systems. This paper addresses the complexity of Traditional/Local Environmental Knowledge (LEK) changes associated to wild vegetables and herbs across four different groups of Afghan refugees living in Mansehra District, NW Pakistan, since 1985. Via interviews with eighty study participants, forty-eight wild vegetables and herbs were recorded, representing both the past and present wild plant gastronomic heritage. The majority of the quoted wild plant ingredients were only remembered and no longer actively used, thus suggesting an important erosion of LEK. Moreover, the number of wild vegetables and herbs currently used by Afghan Pashtuns engaged in farming activities is much higher than those reported by the other groups. The findings indicate that practiced LEK, i.e., knowledge that is continuously kept alive via constant contact with the natural environment, is essential for the resilience of the biocultural heritage, which is, however, also influenced by the rearrangement of social life adopted by refugees after relocation.

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Ajmal Manduzai; Arshad Abbasi; Shujaul Khan; Abdullah Abdullah; Julia Prakofjewa; Mohammad Amini; Muhammad Amjad; Kevin Cianfaglione; Michele Fontefrancesco; Renata Soukand; Andrea Pieroni. The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1500 .

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Ajmal Manduzai, Arshad Abbasi, Shujaul Khan, Abdullah Abdullah, Julia Prakofjewa, Mohammad Amini, Muhammad Amjad, Kevin Cianfaglione, Michele Fontefrancesco, Renata Soukand, Andrea Pieroni. The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1500.

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Ajmal Manduzai; Arshad Abbasi; Shujaul Khan; Abdullah Abdullah; Julia Prakofjewa; Mohammad Amini; Muhammad Amjad; Kevin Cianfaglione; Michele Fontefrancesco; Renata Soukand; Andrea Pieroni. 2021. "The Importance of Keeping Alive Sustainable Foraging Practices: Wild Vegetables and Herbs Gathered by Afghan Refugees Living in Mansehra District, Pakistan." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1500.

Original research article
Published: 10 December 2020 in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
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The article investigates the link between food festivals and traditional food knowledge and explores the role played by tourist events in disseminating local agricultural and gastronomic knowledge. This article presents the ethnographic case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago in Italy, analyzing how the festival supported the continuation of crop production and its associated traditional knowledge in the village. In the face of a decline of asparagus production, the article highlights the role of the festival in fostering a revival of local food knowledge, which is also able to embrace modernization, at the same time maintaining a strong sense of the past and Mezzago's legacy. Thus, the article suggests that festivals are not just events aimed at commodifying local knowledge, but can be important tools to refresh and maintain local expertise, which is vital and pressing in the context of modern society, and strengthen and expand the relationship between members of the community, thus converting the festival into an endeavor to foster sociocultural sustainability.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco; Dauro M. Zocchi. Reviving Traditional Food Knowledge Through Food Festivals. The Case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago, Italy. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2020, 4, 1 .

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro M. Zocchi. Reviving Traditional Food Knowledge Through Food Festivals. The Case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago, Italy. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2020; 4 ():1.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco; Dauro M. Zocchi. 2020. "Reviving Traditional Food Knowledge Through Food Festivals. The Case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago, Italy." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4, no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 15 October 2020 in International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science
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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Dauro Mattia Zocchi. Indigenous crops and cultural dynamics in the markets of Nakuru County, Kenya. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science 2020, 22, 1 .

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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Dauro Mattia Zocchi. Indigenous crops and cultural dynamics in the markets of Nakuru County, Kenya. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science. 2020; 22 ():1.

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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Dauro Mattia Zocchi. 2020. "Indigenous crops and cultural dynamics in the markets of Nakuru County, Kenya." International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science 22, no. : 1.

Research
Published: 29 September 2020 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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Background Initiatives for beekeeping intensification across the tropics can foster production and income, but the changes triggered by the introduction of modern beehives might permeate traditional knowledge and practices in multiple ways, and as such should be investigated and understood. We conducted an ethnobotanical study in the Eastern part of the Mau Forest among Ogiek beekeepers who customarily practice forest beekeeping and who are involved in a project aimed at the modernization of their beekeeping activities. We aimed to document the beekeeping-associated ethnobotanical knowledge, exploring the relationships and complementarity between modern and traditional knowledge and practices. Methods Field research was carried out through semi-structured interviews with 30 Ogiek beekeepers and 10 additional stakeholders. We collected ethnobotanical data about plants used for beekeeping purposes, and ethnographic information on traditional and modern beekeeping systems. Results We report 66 plant species, distributed across 36 botanical families representing 58 genera, important as melliferous, for the construction and placing of hives, attracting bees, and harvesting and storing honey. Dombeya torrida (J.F.Gmel.) Bamps, Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl., and Podocarpus latifolius (Thunb.) R.Br. ex Mirb. are the species with the most mentions and the highest number of uses. Our study reveals that the Ogiek possess a detailed knowledge of the forest’s flora, its importance and uses and that this knowledge underpins beekeeping practices. Under the influence of external actors, the Ogiek have progressively adopted modern versus traditional log hives and moved beekeeping out of the forest into open areas of pastures and crop fields. Beekeepers are also experimenting with combinations of practices borrowed from modern and traditional beekeeping systems, particularly in the field of hive construction and in the criteria to set up apiaries. Conclusions The study indicates a complementarity and an incipient hybridization of traditional and modern beekeeping, in a way that suggests that modern beehives are instrumental in expanding the reach of beekeeping into deforested and cultivated areas. The study also points to the existence of a rift in the effects of beekeeping intensification on the livelihoods of the Ogiek and on their relationship with the forest. We argue that this intensification might be improving the former but weakening the latter, carrying the associated risk of erosion of traditional forest-based ethnobotanical knowledge.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Gabriele Volpato; Duncan Chalo; Patrick Mutiso; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Expanding the reach: ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2020, 16, 1 -22.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Gabriele Volpato, Duncan Chalo, Patrick Mutiso, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Expanding the reach: ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2020; 16 (1):1-22.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Gabriele Volpato; Duncan Chalo; Patrick Mutiso; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. 2020. "Expanding the reach: ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16, no. 1: 1-22.

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Published: 25 August 2020
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Background Initiatives for beekeeping intensification across the tropics can foster production and income, but the changes triggered by the introduction of modern beehives might permeate traditional knowledge and practices in multiple ways, and as such should be investigated and understood. We conducted an ethnobotanical study in the Eastern part of the Mau Forest among Ogiek beekeepers who customarily practice forest beekeeping and who are involved in a project aimed at the modernization of their beekeeping activities. We aimed to document the beekeeping-associated ethnobotanical knowledge, exploring the relationships and complementarity between modern and traditional knowledge and practices. Methods Field research was carried out through semi-structured interviews with 30 Ogiek beekeepers and 10 additional stakeholders. We collected ethnobotanical data about plants used for beekeeping purposes, and ethnographic information on traditional and modern beekeeping systems. Results We report 66 plant species, distributed across 36 botanical families representing 58 genera, important as melliferous, for the construction and placing of hives, attracting bees, and harvesting and storing honey. Dombeya torrida (J.F.Gmel.) Bamps, Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl., and Podocarpus latifolius (Thunb.) R.Br. ex Mirb are the species with the most mentions and the highest number of uses. Our study reveals that the Ogiek possess a detailed knowledge of the forest’s flora, its importance and uses, and that this knowledge underpins beekeeping practices. Under the influence of external actors, the Ogiek have progressively adopted modern versus traditional log hives and moved beekeeping out of the forest into open areas of pastures and crop fields. Beekeepers are also experimenting with combinations of practices borrowed from modern and traditional beekeeping systems, particularly in the field of hive construction and in the criteria to set up apiaries. Conclusions The study indicates a complementarity and an incipient hybridization of traditional and modern beekeeping, in a way that suggests that modern beehives are instrumental in expanding the reach of beekeeping into deforested and cultivated areas. The study also points to the existence of a rift in the effects of beekeeping intensification on the livelihoods of the Ogiek and on their relationship with the forest. We argue that this intensification might be improving the former but weakening the latter, carrying the associated risk of erosion of traditional forest-based ethnobotanical knowledge.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Gabriele Volpato; Duncan Chalo; Patrick Mutiso; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Expanding the reach. Ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya. 2020, 1 .

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Gabriele Volpato, Duncan Chalo, Patrick Mutiso, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Expanding the reach. Ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya. . 2020; ():1.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Gabriele Volpato; Duncan Chalo; Patrick Mutiso; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. 2020. "Expanding the reach. Ethnobotanical knowledge and technological intensification in beekeeping among the Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 09 June 2020 in Food Research International
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This work aims to present a multidisciplinary approach that combines methodologies from economic anthropology and sensory science to valorise non-timber forest products; this is performed by using Kenyan forest honey as a case study to foster a positive alignment between producers and consumers living in the target market. Firstly, ethnographic research was carried out in Kenya to analyse the core competences of the forest honey producers (n = 20) and to select honey samples for the sensory evaluation. Secondly, a consumer test was performed in Italy to investigate the perception of the sensory properties by using a rate-all-that-apply test and its hedonic responses for six forest honeys by subjects living in Italy (n = 50). Based on the producers’ perceptions of the definition of the harvesting area and the floral origin of the honeys, an indigenous classification was outlined. The key core competences of the producers centred around the traditional method of production. The harvesting area was determinant in the preference of the interviewees, being forest honeys produced from the nectar of indigenous melliferous species, from which originate the most appreciated products. Similarly, results from the consumer test showed that harvesting area and the floral origin influenced the hedonic response. Moreover, the drivers of liking (e.g. intense colour, clear appearance, smoked flavour) and disliking (e.g., granularity, opaque appearance) were identified. The paper suggests a development trajectory that promotes the commercial potential of local production but preserves the heritage thereof. The approach is potentially applicable to all marginalised food products and facilitates a promising prospective for sustainable development.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Maria Piochi; Giorgia Cabrino; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Luisa Torri. Linking producers’ and consumers’ perceptions in the valorisation of non-timber forest products: An analysis of Ogiek forest honey. Food Research International 2020, 137, 109417 .

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Maria Piochi, Giorgia Cabrino, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Luisa Torri. Linking producers’ and consumers’ perceptions in the valorisation of non-timber forest products: An analysis of Ogiek forest honey. Food Research International. 2020; 137 ():109417.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Maria Piochi; Giorgia Cabrino; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Luisa Torri. 2020. "Linking producers’ and consumers’ perceptions in the valorisation of non-timber forest products: An analysis of Ogiek forest honey." Food Research International 137, no. : 109417.

Book chapter
Published: 04 June 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Food Donation and Food Drive: Strategies to Achieve Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 312 -320.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Food Donation and Food Drive: Strategies to Achieve Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():312-320.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. 2020. "Food Donation and Food Drive: Strategies to Achieve Zero Hunger." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 312-320.

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Published: 04 June 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Michele F. Fontefrancesco; Henry Sidsaph. Food Web and Food Network: Role of Food System Ecological Interconnectedness in Achieving the Zero Hunger Goal. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 370 -380.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Henry Sidsaph. Food Web and Food Network: Role of Food System Ecological Interconnectedness in Achieving the Zero Hunger Goal. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():370-380.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco; Henry Sidsaph. 2020. "Food Web and Food Network: Role of Food System Ecological Interconnectedness in Achieving the Zero Hunger Goal." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 370-380.

Book chapter
Published: 04 June 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Michele F. Fontefrancesco; Paolo Corvo. Slow Food: History and Activity of a Global Food Movement Toward SDG2. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 766 -774.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Paolo Corvo. Slow Food: History and Activity of a Global Food Movement Toward SDG2. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():766-774.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco; Paolo Corvo. 2020. "Slow Food: History and Activity of a Global Food Movement Toward SDG2." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 766-774.

Book chapter
Published: 04 June 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Food Commodity Market: History and Impact of Food Trading Toward SDG2. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 304 -312.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Food Commodity Market: History and Impact of Food Trading Toward SDG2. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():304-312.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. 2020. "Food Commodity Market: History and Impact of Food Trading Toward SDG2." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 304-312.

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Published: 01 June 2020
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BackgroundInitiatives for the promotion and intensification of beekeeping through the introduction of modern beehives are taking place in East Africa and elsewhere where beekeeping has been a long-standing livelihood practice. When innovations are introduced into people’s livelihoods and culture, they can trigger multiple changes, aligned or not with the original intentions. We carried out fieldwork in the Eastern part of the Mau Forest Complex, focusing on beekeeping activities among Ogiek beekeepers involved in a project aimed at promoting honey production through the modernization of the apiculture sector. The main aim of the study was to explore the relationships, tensions and complementarity of traditional and modern knowledge and practices and the ways in which they are employed in beekeeping strategies among the Ogiek, as well as to reflect on the changes that this intensification process triggers in the livelihoods of the Ogiek and in their relationship with Mau ForestMethodsWe conducted semi-structured interviews and free listing exercises with 30 Ogiek beekeepers. Other methods included guided field walks in apiaries and participant observation. We collected ethnobotanical data about the flora used in beekeeping and ethnographic information on traditional practices of apiary management and honey harvesting and storing.Results We report 66 species that are important for beekeeping purposes in 6 main use categories, namely melliferous species, and species used for making hives, placing hives, attracting bees, harvesting and storing honey. Our study reveals that the Ogiek still possess detailed knowledge of the forest’s flora and its importance and uses. At the same time, they have moved beekeeping out of the forest into open areas of pasture and crop fields, adopting modern beekeeping techniques. The two beekeeping systems have complementary roles in the livelihoods of the Ogiek and rely on different paths of knowledge transmission and on different plant species. We highlight that modern and traditional beekeeping respond to the challenges and requirements of different ecological settings.ConclusionsOur study indicates a complementarity of traditional and modern beekeeping and associated knowledge and practices within the livelihoods of the Ogiek, but it also suggests that the process of honey production intensification, by decoupling beekeeping from the forest, may weaken the relationship between the Ogiek and the forest, thus impairing the Ogiek’s role as guardians of the forest, and eroding beekeeping-associated TEK. Further studies should target the promotion of forest beekeeping via the intensification of log hive production and valorisation of forest honey and associated TEK as well as floristic diversity.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Gabriele Volpato; Duncan Chalo Mutiso; Patrick Chalo Mutiso; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Expanding the Reach. Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Technological Intensification in Beekeeping Among The Ogiek of Mau Forest, Kenya. 2020, 1 .

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi, Gabriele Volpato, Duncan Chalo Mutiso, Patrick Chalo Mutiso, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. Expanding the Reach. Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Technological Intensification in Beekeeping Among The Ogiek of Mau Forest, Kenya. . 2020; ():1.

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Dauro Mattia Zocchi; Gabriele Volpato; Duncan Chalo Mutiso; Patrick Chalo Mutiso; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco. 2020. "Expanding the Reach. Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Technological Intensification in Beekeeping Among The Ogiek of Mau Forest, Kenya." , no. : 1.

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Published: 04 May 2020 in Social Indicators Research
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Workers’ wellbeing at work is a central theme for the development of institutions and enterprises. Within this debate, a central issue relates to the search for the best ways to organize lunch-breaks and food services for employees. In the past, canteens had a crucial role for workers, yet the last twenty years have marked a profound transformation of the European economy, with the effect of diversifying workers’ foodways and their food-related practices while at work. Based on the research “Eating at Work” conducted by the University of Gastronomic Sciences in 2015–2016, this paper analyses the consumer behavior at lunch of almost 9400 workers, from ten different European countries. By exploring the workers’ foodways during lunch-breaks and how they answer to their individual needs in terms of nutrition, socialization, productivity and overall satisfaction, the paper points out that the lunch-break has major implications in boosting wellbeing at work, thus suggesting the essential role canteens have the potential to carry out.

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Paolo Corvo; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Raffaele Matacena. Eating at Work: The Role of the Lunch-Break and Canteens for Wellbeing at Work in Europe. Social Indicators Research 2020, 150, 1043 -1076.

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Paolo Corvo, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Raffaele Matacena. Eating at Work: The Role of the Lunch-Break and Canteens for Wellbeing at Work in Europe. Social Indicators Research. 2020; 150 (3):1043-1076.

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Paolo Corvo; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Raffaele Matacena. 2020. "Eating at Work: The Role of the Lunch-Break and Canteens for Wellbeing at Work in Europe." Social Indicators Research 150, no. 3: 1043-1076.

Editorial
Published: 21 April 2020 in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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The Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (JEET), throughout its 15 years of existence, has tried to provide a respected outlet for scientific knowledge concerning the inextricable links between human societies and nature, food, and health. Ethnobiology and ethnomedicine-centred research has moved at the (partially artificial and fictitious) interface between nature and culture and has investigated human consumption of wild foods and wild animals, as well as the use of wild animals or their parts for medicinal and other purposes, along with the associated knowledge, skills, practices, and beliefs. Little attention has been paid, however, to the complex interplay of social and cultural reasons behind the increasing pressure on wildlife. The available literature suggest that there are two main drivers that enhance the necessary conditions for infectious diseases to cross the species barrier from wild animals to humans: (1) the encroachment of human activities (e.g., logging, mining, agricultural expansion) into wild areas and forests and consequent ecological disruptions; and, connected to the former, (2) the commodification of wild animals (and natural resources in general) and an expanding demand and market for wild meat and live wild animals, particularly in tropical and sub-tropical areas. In particular, a crucial role may have been played by the bushmeat-euphoria and attached elitist gastronomies and conspicuous consumption phenomena. The COVID-19 pandemic will likely require ethnobiologists to reschedule research agendas and to envision new epistemological trajectories aimed at more effectively mitigating the mismanagement of natural resources that ultimately threats our and other beings’ existence.

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Gabriele Volpato; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Paolo Gruppuso; Dauro M. Zocchi; Andrea Pieroni. Baby pangolins on my plate: possible lessons to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2020, 16, 1 -12.

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Gabriele Volpato, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Paolo Gruppuso, Dauro M. Zocchi, Andrea Pieroni. Baby pangolins on my plate: possible lessons to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2020; 16 (1):1-12.

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Gabriele Volpato; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Paolo Gruppuso; Dauro M. Zocchi; Andrea Pieroni. 2020. "Baby pangolins on my plate: possible lessons to learn from the COVID-19 pandemic." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16, no. 1: 1-12.

Journal article
Published: 17 January 2020 in Heliyon
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Babushka informal markets selling several homemade gastronomic plant and animal-based products and culinary preparations, as well as wild and cultivated plants, and sometimes family butchered barnyard animals are extremely popular in Ukraine. In this field study that we conducted over a few years we inventoried the most relevant food plant products sold in these markets and we analysed how these markets represent remarkable food refugia for several local niche foods. In addition, we researched the historical and socio-economic reasons for the start, survival, and revival of this phenomenon, which had its origin during the Communist period. We furthermore evaluated similar recent trends in other Eastern European countries and especially those which had a very different post-Communist trajectory with the aim of addressing the possible factors affecting their survival and what could be done to preserve their existence. In particular, in a few of these countries (i.e. Azerbaijan) we observed how informal food markets represent experimental fields where gastronomic knowledge is not only "preserved", but also reinvented, possibly in response to the preferences and requests of a city's customers.

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Renata Sõukand; Nataliya Stryamets; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Andrea Pieroni. The importance of tolerating interstices: Babushka markets in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their role in maintaining local food knowledge and diversity. Heliyon 2020, 6, e03222 .

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Renata Sõukand, Nataliya Stryamets, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco, Andrea Pieroni. The importance of tolerating interstices: Babushka markets in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their role in maintaining local food knowledge and diversity. Heliyon. 2020; 6 (1):e03222.

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Renata Sõukand; Nataliya Stryamets; Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco; Andrea Pieroni. 2020. "The importance of tolerating interstices: Babushka markets in Ukraine and Eastern Europe and their role in maintaining local food knowledge and diversity." Heliyon 6, no. 1: e03222.

Journal article
Published: 07 January 2020 in Journal of Ethnic Foods
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This research draws from memories, and the deep sense of belonging, tradition, and presence that is linked with a dish of Italian regional tradition; agnolotti pasta, one example of what can be considered an Italian ethnic food. It does so in order to challenge an assumption that is widely spread in the public debate and as well as in scholarship, which automatically links the popularization of traditional, ethnic cuisine with a fulgid prospective of local development in particular for the rural communities. This article challenges this imagery by drawing attention on what popularization means and how it is achieved in food festivals, restaurants, and shops. In doing so, it contributes to decouple popularization and development by exploring the ethnographic case of Piedmont, Italy.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Traditional festive food and fragile aspirations of development in Italy: the case of agnolotti pasta. Journal of Ethnic Foods 2020, 7, 1 -8.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Traditional festive food and fragile aspirations of development in Italy: the case of agnolotti pasta. Journal of Ethnic Foods. 2020; 7 (1):1-8.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. 2020. "Traditional festive food and fragile aspirations of development in Italy: the case of agnolotti pasta." Journal of Ethnic Foods 7, no. 1: 1-8.

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Published: 05 January 2020 in Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
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This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the perception of tourism in small, rural municipalities in Italian internal areas, by focusing on the UNESCO territory of Monferrato, in North-Western Italy. The paper looks at how communities consider tourism in relationship with the specificities of their land and the need of transforming it in order to create a functional tourist destination. In so doing, the paper answers to key questions concerning touristic development by pointing the relevance of the hierarchy of values of the communities in shaping the actual offer in services and goods, highlighting the conflicting expectations concerning developing a new, thriving economic and maintaining the local social stability.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 2020, 14, 1 .

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology. 2020; 14 (4):1.

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Michele F. Fontefrancesco. 2020. "Between Change and Stability: Local Development, Tourist Offer and Local Values in Monferrato, Italy." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 14, no. 4: 1.