The use of medicinal plants has been decreasing gradually. Our main objective was to determine whether young people today are still familiar with medicinal plants, and whether traditional knowledge, ...which forms part of the cultural heritage, has been lost or is still being passed on to new generations. In our study, we found that the majority of 19-year-olds used medicinal plants occasionally. They mostly buy dried plants or products based on medicinal plants; they rarely grew plants themselves. Their general knowledge concerning the use and effects of using these plants was not satisfactory. Students were only able to identify correctly a few medicinal plants, and most were not able to recognize poisonous plants. It was proposed that more time in school should be devoted to this topic because pupils did show interest in medicinal plants. This could be in the form of an elective module in the frame of an open curriculum that would also include growing plants in a school garden.
V spletni anketni raziskavi nas je zanimalo, kateri dejavniki so odločilni za nakup živil v osrednjem in SZ delu Slovenije (Gorenjska). Anketni vzorec je sestavljalo 249 anketirancev. Ugotovili smo, ...da 79 % anketirancev prideluje pretežno sadje in zelenjavo na svojem vrtu. Pri tem jih večina uporablja le organska gnojila (76 %), kar kaže na visoko ozaveščenost ljudi v zvezi z ohranjanjem okolja. Kar 94 % vprašanih nakupuje v večjih trgovinah (supermarketih), 88 % pa jih ni nikoli kupovalo živil prek interneta. Pri nakupu potrošniki na pomembno mesto dajejo poznan oziroma slovenski izdelek in ekološki izdelek, medtem ko cena izdelka ne sodi med pomembnejše motive za nakup. Rezultati so pokazali, da se za nakup ekološkega proizvoda anketiranci raje odločajo v ekoloških trgovinah kot v supermarketih.
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