Decreasing variety of plant foods used in developing countries

Doughty, Joyce

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“…In turn, food agro-biodiversity is inextricably connected with cultural heritage [45,51,52]. To focus on food and culture, as well as food and dishes always "reflect the regional identity of people, ethnic groups and communities, and the use of wild food plants is an example that exemplifies local knowledge or traditional ecological knowledge" [5,20,53]. Ethnographic and empirical findings from the survey show that in southern Cameroon, these specific foods simply "come from the forest" or "come from the bush".…”

Section: Getting Wild: the Continuum Of Human-plant Interactionmentioning

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Wild Food, Prices, Diets and Development: Sustainability and Food Security in Urban Cameroon

Sneyd

2013

Sustainability

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This article analyses wild food consumption in urban areas of Cameroon. Building upon findings from Cameroon's Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) this case study presents empirical data collected from 371 household and market surveys in Cameroonian cities. It employs the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food's framework for understanding challenges related to the availability, accessibility, and adequacy of food. The survey data suggest that many wild/traditional foods are physically available in Cameroonian cities most of the time, including fruits, vegetables, spices, and insects. Cameroonians spend considerable sums of their food budget on wild foods. However, low wages and the high cost of city living constrain the social and economic access most people have to these foods. The data also suggest that imports of non-traditional staple foods, such as low cost rice, have increasingly priced potentially more nutritious or safe traditional local foods out of markets after the 2008 food price crisis. As a result, diets are changing in Cameroon as the resource-constrained population continues to resort to the coping strategy of eating cheaper imported foods such as refined rice or to eating less frequently. Cameroon's nutrition transition continues to be driven by need and not necessarily by the preferences of Cameroonian consumers. The implications of this reality for sustainability are troubling.

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Section: Getting Wild: the Continuum Of Human-plant Interactionmentioning

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Wild Food, Prices, Diets and Development: Sustainability and Food Security in Urban Cameroon

Sneyd

2013

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Value of traditional foods in meeting macro- and micronutrient needs: the wild plant connection

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The importance of edible wild plants may be traced to antiquity but systematic studies are recent. Anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, food scientists, geographers, nutritionists, physicians and sociologists have investigated cultural aspects and nutrient composition of edible species. Important contributions to the diet from edible wild plants are well documented and numerous studies reveal roles played by`lesser-known' species when meeting macro-and micronutrient needs of groups at risk, whether infants and children, pregnant and/or lactating women, or the elderly. The literature is vast and scattered but information on the macroand micronutrient content of wild plants and their importance to the human diet appear in ®ve kinds of publications: cultural works by social scientists, descriptions and inventories by botanists, dietary assessment studies by nutritionists, intervention programmes managed by epidemiologists and physicians, and composition data generally conducted by food scientists and chemists. Many macro-and micronutrient-dense wild species deserve greater attention but lack of adequate nutrient databases, whether by region or nation, limit educational efforts to improve diets in many Third World areas. Limited and uneven compositional data generally re¯ect factors of cost and personal interest in key nutrients. Whilst edible wild plants are regularly deprecated by policy makers and considered to be the`weeds of agriculture', it would be tragic if this led to loss of ability to identify and consume these important available species. Ethnobotany: Macronutrients: Micronutrients: Nutritional anthropology: Wild plantsAs there is a plenty of common and French sorrel; lamb's quarters, and water cresses, growing about camp; and as these vegetables are very conducive to health, and tend to prevent the scurvy and all putrid disorders . . . the General recommends to the soldiers the constant use of them, as they make an agreeable salad, and have the most salutary effect. The regimental of®cer of the day [is] to send to gather them every morning, and have them distributed among the men.'Washington (1777)

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Legacy of the chameleon: Edible wild plants in the kingdom of Swaziland, Southern Africa. A cultural, ecological, nutritional study. Part I ‐ Introduction, objectives, methods, Swazi culture, landscape and diet

Ogle

Grivetti

1985

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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Decreasing variety of plant foods used in developing countries

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Wild Food, Prices, Diets and Development: Sustainability and Food Security in Urban Cameroon

Wild Food, Prices, Diets and Development: Sustainability and Food Security in Urban Cameroon

Value of traditional foods in meeting macro- and micronutrient needs: the wild plant connection

Legacy of the chameleon: Edible wild plants in the kingdom of Swaziland, Southern Africa. A cultural, ecological, nutritional study. Part I ‐ Introduction, objectives, methods, Swazi culture, landscape and diet

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