From tradition to nutrition: wild and cultivated Aymara food plants as sustainable resources in the Andean neotropics of Bolivia
Simón Cocarico, Diego Rivera, Stephan Beck, Diego José Rivera-Obón, Concepción Obón · 2026
Read From tradition to nutrition: wild and cultivated Aymara food plants as sustainable resources in the Andean neotropics of Bolivia by Simón Cocarico, Diego Rivera, Stephan Beck, Diego José Rivera-Obón, Concepción Obón (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13238266.txt.
Description
Simón Cocarico and co-authors document food plants of Aymara communities in the Bolivian highlands in a paper from two thousand twenty-six. Indigenous food systems hold deep knowledge for harsh lands, but much of it was never written down. The team set out to record it.
Fieldwork from two thousand one to two thousand fifteen drew on talks with two hundred eighty-eight informants and hands-on observation. The record covers two hundred thirteen food plant species in seventy-one families, seventy percent of them native. Eight pre-cooking methods appear, from alkaline ash use to freeze-thaw cycles for chuño and long fermentation for tunta. The authors call it the fullest record of Aymara food plant knowledge to date.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Simón Cocarico, Diego Rivera, Stephan Beck, Diego José Rivera-Obón, Concepción Obón |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 83 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |