Zoning in: The contributions of buyam–sellams to constructing Cameroon’s wild food zone

Sneyd, Lauren Q.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.12.005

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“…As a result, the concept of privately owned tree crops producing Agroforestry Tree Products (AFTPs) has been proposed to distinguish them from common-property forest resources [207]. This is important, as these tree products are the backbone of most rural economies and contribute to the enhancement of the socio-economic welfare of forestdependent communities [180,187,189,191,[208][209][210][211][212][213][214][215][216][217][218][219][220][221][222][223][224]. Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that the sustainable exploitation, commercialization and management of NTFPs/AFTPs could contribute immensely to the attainment of important Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing), SDG 13 (climate action) and SDG 15 (life on land) [21,[225][226][227].…”

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The Future of Food: Domestication and Commercialization of Indigenous Food Crops in Africa over the Third Decade (2012–2021)

Leakey¹,

Avana

Awazi

et al. 2022

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This paper follows the transition from ethnobotany to a deeper scientific understanding of the food and medicinal properties of African agroforestry tree products as inputs into the start of domestication activities. It progresses on to the integration of these indigenous trees as new crops within diversified farming systems for multiple social, economic and environmental benefits. From its advent in the 1990s, the domestication of indigenous food and non-food tree species has become a global programme with a strong African focus. This review of progress in the third decade is restricted to progress in Africa, where multi-disciplinary research on over 59 species has been reported in 759 research papers in 318 science publications by scientists from over 833 research teams in 70 countries around the world (532 in Africa). The review spans 23 research topics presenting the recent research literature for tree species of high priority across the continent, as well as that in each of the four main ecological regions: the humid zone of West and Central Africa; the Sahel and North Africa; the East African highlands and drylands; and the woody savannas of Southern Africa. The main areas of growth have been the nutritional/medicinal value of non-timber forest products; the evaluation of the state of natural resources and their importance to local people; and the characterization of useful traits. However, the testing of putative cultivars; the implementation of participatory principles; the protection of traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights; and the selection of elite trees and ideotypes remain under-researched. To the probable detriment of the upscaling and impact in tropical agriculture, there has been, at the international level, a move away from decentralized, community-based tree domestication towards a laboratory-based, centralized approach. However, the rapid uptake of research by university departments and national agricultural research centres in Africa indicates a recognition of the importance of the indigenous crops for both the livelihoods of rural communities and the revitalization and enhanced outputs from agriculture in Africa, especially in West Africa. Thus, on a continental scale, there has been an uptake of research with policy relevance for the integration of indigenous trees in agroecosystems and their importance for the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. To progress this in the fourth decade, there will need to be a dedicated Centre in Africa to test and develop cultivars of indigenous crops. Finally, this review underpins a holistic approach to mitigating climate change, as well as other big global issues such as hunger, poverty and loss of wildlife habitat by reaping the benefits, or ‘profits’, from investment in the five forms of Capital, described as ‘land maxing’. However, policy and decision makers are not yet recognizing the potential for holistic and transformational adoption of these new indigenous food crop opportunities for African agriculture. Is ‘political will’ the missing sixth capital for sustainable development?

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The Future of Food: Domestication and Commercialization of Indigenous Food Crops in Africa over the Third Decade (2012–2021)

Leakey¹,

Avana

Awazi

et al. 2022

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“…The data from the interviews yielded 420 recipes. What was learned from these series of questions and the recipes was that rice is not an accompaniment to the dishes prepared with food products from southern Cameroon's humid forest zone (L. Sneyd 2015). Dishes made with ingredients from the Congo Basin's forest emerged from a different culinary history than dishes that are traditionally prepared with rice (L. Sneyd 2013).…”

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Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions

Hossain¹,

Scott‐Villiers²

2017

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Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular mobilization around food tell us about the politics of subsistence in an era of integrated food markets and universal human rights? This book interrogates this period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of food for people on low incomes.The half decade of 2007-2012 was a period of intensely volatile food prices as well as unusual levels of popular mobilization, including protests and riots. Detailed case studies are included here from Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Kenya and Mozambique. The case studies illustrate that political cultures and ways of organizing around food share much across geography and history, indicating common characteristics of the popular politics of provisions under capitalism. However, all politics are ultimately local, and it is demonstrated how the historic fallout of a subsistence crisis depends ultimately on how the actors and institutions articulate, negotiate and reassert their specific claims within the peculiarities of each policy.A key conclusion of the book is that the politics of provisions remain essential to the right to food and that they involve unruliness. In other words, food riots work. The book explains how and why they continue to do so even in the globalized food system of the 21st century. Food riots signal a state unable to meet a principal condition of its social contract, and create powerful pressure on a state to address that most fundamental of failings.

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“…Collection of wild edible plants is Wild edible plants play important role in food security in sub-Saharan Africa (Salih and Ali, 2014). They are diverse, provide micronutrient, vitamins and diverse taste to the households (Afolayan and Jimoh, 2009;Basu et al, 2014;Ju et al, 2013;Kidane et al, 2014a;Onyekwelu et al, 2015;Sneyd, 2015). Many wild edible plants are gathered by poor people from different geographic, cultural and ethnic groups .…”

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Knowledge and use of Wild Edible Plants in the Hula District of the Sidama Zone

Sina¹,

Degu²

2015

Inter. Jour. of Bio-reso. Stress Manag.

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Sidama Zone is found in the Southern Nation Nationalities and People Regional State of Ethiopia. The zone has thirty-three districts. Wild edible plants are means of survival during war, political unrest, and food insecurity in this Zone. The objective of this research is to describe indigenous knowledge about wild edible plants based age, gender and education level in Hula district. Data on the use of wild edible plant were collected through semi structured interviews with key informants. The textual data were coded, quantified and analyzed with R software. A total of 50 wild edible plants belonging to 46 genera and 31 botanical families were reported in Hula district. Families Moraceae (12.5%), Rosaceae (12.5%), Rubiaceae (9.5%), Fabaceae (9.5%) and Solanaceae (9.5%) were found in the area. About 68% of the wild edible plants were trees. These wild edible plants were marketable. Further more some of the wild edible plants have medicinal values for human and livestock diseases. The popular food-category of wild edible plants is fruit eaten raw, and herbs eaten cooked as vegetables. There is significant difference (p<0.05) on the knowledge of wild edible plants between different sex and age groups. Social, economic and cultural factors contributed for consumption and avoidance of some edible wild plants. The poor communication system, on the other hand, has hindered the knowledge transfer from elders to youngsters and among different genders. The demand is growing for most of the wild plants regarded as local specialties, and reflect regional and cultural identity.

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Zoning in: The contributions of buyam–sellams to constructing Cameroon’s wild food zone

Cited by 7 publications

References 60 publications

The Future of Food: Domestication and Commercialization of Indigenous Food Crops in Africa over the Third Decade (2012–2021)

The Future of Food: Domestication and Commercialization of Indigenous Food Crops in Africa over the Third Decade (2012–2021)

Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions

Knowledge and use of Wild Edible Plants in the Hula District of the Sidama Zone

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