The paper attempts to carefully review the ancient and contemporary uses of mustard as food and medicine with reference to the Ayurvedic tradition.

The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is the result of a collaborative effort, organized by the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The Chapters were written by independent experts. This publication discussed many of the issues addressed by the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It is divided into seven chapters, based on the six mandated areas of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, in addition to chapters on emerging issues.

The study focusses on cardamom based agroforestry system in the Himalayas which has proved to be a sustainable land use practice at the landscape level supporting multiple functions and ecosystem services.

The paper is aimed to document the traditional knowledge of the ethnic Himalayan people on preparation of various traditionally processed meat products such as kargyong, kheuri, satchu, suka ko masu, chilu, chartayshya, gemma and arjia.

The paper describes the indigenous method of preparation of rasont and its uses in Solan and Shimla districts of Himachal Pradesh.

Biopreservation of perishable vegetables is a native skill of Northeast Indian women. Lactic acid fermentation is the actual mechanism involve in the biopreservation process of perishable vegetable and bamboo shoots.

This study discuss about the traditional methods of Ginger cultivation in North East region of India.

This paper studies the use of flora and fauna as indicators in predicting annual seasons among Karbi tribe of Assam.

Of the plants documented under 10 major categories, 47 species are used for food, 21 species are used in medicine and 35 species are used for other purposes.

The aim of the present study is to document human-plant interactions in main stream societies in a part of Karnataka state in Southern India.