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economic uses. Such an approach is short sighted; with perhaps initial food gains but at an unacceptable price. Without the knowledge on which to base decisions such agricultvzal planning would exist only in a vacuum. Within the tropical regions of sub-iriharan Africa the theme of "hungry months", or period of food insufficiency that occurs when dietary resources from stored field crops are exhausted and the anticipated harvest from growing crops has not been achieved, is another compelling argument for developmental research on edible wild plants. This dietary problem has been documented by Dubourg (1957) for the Mossi of Upper Volta, by Hunter (1967) for several societies in Ghana, by Brooke (1967) for Tanzania. In West Africa Annegers (1973) and Ogubu (1973) clearly show the important role played by indigenous wild food resources in the months just before harvest of domesticated field crops. Their work reveals the need for careful planning when considering expanding agricultural farm size at the expense of vital, nutritionally im portant wild plants that supplement human diet at critical periods of the agricultural cycle (see also Miracle, 1961; Seasonal Hunger, 1968). 85.
RECOMMENDATIONS Accordingly, the following four recommendations are made and follow from data developed in this report: 1. Underutilized/exploited wild plants should be considered a research priority within agricultural development programs sponsored by the Agency for International Development. 2. Local USAID officials should be provided with limited discretionary funding in the range of U.S. $20-30,000 to sponsor systematic economic surveys in target regions whereby wild plants with potential dietary and non-dietary uses could be identified and evaluated for further study. 3. Teams of qualified Anthropologists/Geographers, Botanists, and Nutri tionists should be encouraged to apply for such funding to systemati cally examine and review the potential for further development of wild plants within sub-Saharan Africa. 4. A systematic effort should be launched to develop a nutritional data base on the energy, vitamin, and mineral composition of important edible wild plants. Field collections could be returned to Federal or American university laboratories for analysis at relatively little cost -- but with enormous nutritional and economic potential. 86.
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REPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE A
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONTINUED) WILD
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TABLES (CONTINUED) 25. Xhosa Edible
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potential for such species within t
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medicinal plants are ingested, prov
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1883) on diet and plants in ancient
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eports, however, is that by Metz et
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Turning to East Africa, important b
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TABLES 1 - 7 FOLLOW TEXT RESUMES ON
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TABLE 2. Classification of African
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TABLE 4. Plants Used by Bushmen in
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TABLE 6. Staple Wild Plants and Fam
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TABLE 7. Edible Wild Plants of Zanz
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West Africa: Botanical/Dietary Data
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and Solanum indicum. The most impor
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TABLE 8. Supplementary and Emergenc
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STEMS TABLE 8 (CONTINUED) Euphorbia
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SEEDS (CONTINUED) FUNGI FERNS Oryza
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TABLE 10. Edible Wild Plants from B
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TABLE 12. Indigenous Wild Edible Pl
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TABLE 14. Nutritional Value of Edib
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Page 87 and 88: TABLE 27. Nutritional Value of Sele
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