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1 <strong>Mountain</strong> Flora and Fauna<br />

Bajura, Nepal<br />

Narayan Singh Khawas<br />

Bajura district in Western Nepal is a food-deficit area. Constantly faced<br />

with insufficient food, village women go to <strong>the</strong> forests to forage for wild<br />

spinach (locally called rugi sag), a kind <strong>of</strong> wild edible.<br />

2 <strong>Mountain</strong> <strong>Biodiversity</strong> as Food<br />

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