Geographic factors predict wild food and nonfood NTFP collection by households across four African countries

Matthew Cooper, Alex Zvoleff, Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich, Felly Tusiime, Mark Musumba, Monica Noon, Peter Alele and Madeleine Nyiratuza

Forest Policy and Economics, 2018, vol. 96, issue C, 38-53

Abstract: Wild foods and other nonfood NTFPs are important for improving food security and supplementing incomes in rural peoples' livelihoods. However, studies on the importance of NTFPs to rural communities are often limited to a few select sites and are conducted in areas that are already known to have high rates of NTFP use. To address this, we examined the role of geographic and household level variables in determining whether a household would report collecting wild foods and other nonfood NTFP across 25 agro-ecological landscapes in Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Ghana. The aim of this study was to contribute to the literature on NTFP collection in Africa and to better understand where people depend on these resources by drawing on a broad range of sites that were highly variable in geographic characteristics as well as rates of NTFP collection to provide a better understanding of the determinants of NTFP collection. We found that geographic factors, such as the presence of forests, non-forest natural areas like grasslands and shrublands, and lower population density significantly predict whether a household will report collecting NTFP, and that these factors have greater explanatory power than household characteristics

Keywords: Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs); Wild foods; Forests; Household surveys; Geographic determinants; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2018.08.002

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