Wild Food Consumption and Urban Food Security

摘要: Increased urbanization across the African continent is an important contributor to expansion of local, urban wild food markets. Urbanization creates a new type consumer who, unlike rural inhabitants, has buy products rather than gather them. Wild foods are increasingly recognized for their contributions dietary diversity and nutritional security in centres Congo Basin Cameroon. This chapter aims contribute understanding linkages between security, drawing on 2011 Cameroon Comprehensive Food Security Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) baseline study, supplemented with interview survey data gathered during fieldwork from 2010 2013. Geographically, focus consumption Yaounde, capital city, southwest peri-urban region. It concludes that ongoing research needs be carried out areas accessibility diet rich better understand environmental sustainability, nutrition, public health.