Some estimates suggest that almost a quarter of European households have members that forage, that is, pick wild products. Thus, foraging remains an important way for people to engage with their surrounding environment. Foraging has been associated both with the potential negative impacts it may have and with the potential positive effects it may bring. This article engages with the diversity of foragers and outlines the characteristics of their groups, consequently illustrating the potential and threats associated with various forager groups. It suggests that a targeted political engagement with these groups can help to address several pressing environmental, economic and social issues. The article employs two theoretical dimensions: motivation and knowledge to define two exclusive binary delimitating variables––the type of motivation and adapted knowledge frames. The variables are used to identify four subgroups of foragers: rooted foragers, lifestyle foragers, subsistence foragers and commercial foragers. The article relies on 30 in-depth interviews conducted in Latvia to illustrate the characteristics of these groups.

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所有觅食者都一样吗？迈向觅食者分类

一些估计表明，近四分之一的欧洲家庭的成员都在觅食，即采摘野生产品。因此，觅食仍然是人们与周围环境互动的重要方式。觅食与其可能产生的潜在负面影响以及可能带来的潜在正面影响都相关。本文探讨了各种觅食者群体的特点，概述了其觅食者群体的特征，从而阐明了与各种觅食者群体相关的潜力和威胁。它表明与这些团体有针对性的政治接触可以帮助解决一些紧迫的环境，经济和社会问题。本文采用了两个理论维度：动机和知识来定义两个排他的二进制定界变量-动机的类型和适应的知识框架。变量用于识别四个觅食者亚组：有根觅食者，生活方式觅食者，生存觅食者和商业觅食者。本文依靠在拉脱维亚进行的30次深度访谈来说明这些人群的特征。