▪ Abstract The traditional use of insects as food continues to be widespread in tropical and
subtropical countries and to provide significant nutritional, economic and ecological benefits …

The importance of edible wild plants may be traced to antiquity but systematic studies are
recent. Anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, food scientists, geographers, nutritionists …

Analysis of rural households and environmental resources is beset by inadequate data,
especially in Africa. Using purpose-collected panel data from Zimbabwe, we demonstrate …

This paper provides an overview of the nutritional aspects of insect consumption
(entomophagy) among indigenous populations. The nutritional quality of food insects is …

Forêt des Pins Reserve, a state-owned natural forest in Haiti, has suffered severe
degradation due to an ongoing influx of people seeking fertile agricultural land and off-farm …

Participation by local communities in management is widely considered a means of
sustaining protected areas. In parts of the world with a history of armed conflict, the chances …

The majority of South Africa's rural population resides in the former homelands. Although
cash from urban and government sources is the mainstay of the rural economy in many …

Much work has demonstrated the significant role and value of non-timber forest products
(NTFPs) in the livelihoods of rural people in southern Africa and elsewhere. The findings …

There is a fair degree of misplaced optimism about common property resource (CPR)
management. In investigating common property issues for woodlands in communal areas in …

Abstract Rural communities in South Africa harvest a diversity of wild resources from
communal woodlands for home consumption and sale. The contribution these resources …