90
Views
35
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Paper

The status of wild food plants in Bulamogi County, Uganda

, &
Pages 485-498 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

References

  • Anonymous (2000): Gadumire Sub-county: Local Govern-ernment Development Work-plan for 2001/2003. Kamuli District, Uganda.
  • Asfaw Z & Tadesse M (2001): Prospects for sustainable use and development of wild food plants in Ethiopia. Econ. Bot. 55(1),47–62.
  • Banana AY & Turiho-Habwe GP (1997): A socio-economic survey of forest foods consumption in Hoima and Masindi districts of Uganda. Afr. Crop Sci. Conf. Proc. 3, 1435–1442.
  • Blench R (2002): The movement of cultivated plants between Africa and India in prehistory. In Progress in African Archaeobotany, eds K Neumann, A Butler & S Kahlheber, Proceedings of the 3rd IWAA Work-shop, Frankfurt, 5-7 July. AFRICA OECO-LOGICA.BoschCH, Siemonsma RHMJ & OyenLPA (Eds) (2002): Plant Resources of Tropical Africa: Basic List of Species and Commodity Grouping. Wageningen: PROTA Programme.
  • Department of Lands and Survey (1962): Atlas of Uganda, pp. 22–23. Entebbe: Department of Lands & Survey, Uganda. Etkin NL (1998): Indigenous patterns of conserving biodi- versity: pharmacological implications. J. Ethnopharmacol. 63, 233–245.
  • Etkin NL (2002): Local knowledge of biotic diversity and its conservation in rural Hausaland, Northern Nigeria. Econ. Bot. 56(1),73–88.
  • Fahey JW (1998): Underexploited African grain crops: a nutritional resource. Nutr. Rev. 56(9),282–285.
  • FAO (1988): Traditional Food Plants: A Resource Book for Promoting the Exploitation and Consumption of Food Plants in Arid, Semi-arid and Sub-humid Lands of Eastern Africa, Food and nutrition paper 4–2. Rome: FAO.
  • FAO (1996): Rome Declaration on World Food Security and World Food Summit Plan of Action. Rome: FAO.
  • FAO (1999): FAO Production Yearbook, vol 52-1998, statistical series 148. Rome: FAO.
  • Forest Department (1997): The National Biomass Study. Land Cover Stratification Map. Bulamogi County. Na-kawa: Forest Department.
  • Frisvold GB & Condon PT (1998): The Convention on biological diversity and agriculture: implications and unsolved debates. World Dev. 26(4),551–570.
  • Gura S (1986): A note on traditional food plants in East Africa: their value for nutrition and agriculture. Food Nutr. 12(1),18–22.
  • Iltis HH (1988): Serendipity in the exploration of biodiver- sity: what good are weedy tomatoes? In Biodiversity, ed, EO Wilson, pp 98–105. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
  • Jha PK (2000): Environment and agriculture: trends and perspectives. In Environment and Agriculture: At the Crossroads of the New Millennium, eds PK Jha, SB Karmacharya, SR Baral & P Lacoul, pp. 48–62. Nepal: Ecological Society (ECOS).
  • Kabuye CS & Ngugi GW (2001): The nutritional and medicinal importance of indigenous (and traditional) food plants. In The Potential of Indigenous Wild Foods. workshop proceedings. Diani, Kenya: USIAD/OFDA/ CRS-Southern Sudan.
  • Katende AB, Bukenya-Ziraba R. Kakudidi EKZ & Lye KA (1998): Catalogue of Economically Important Plants in Uganda. Botany Department, Makerere University, Uganda.
  • Ladio AH (2001): The maintenance of wild edible plant gathering in a Mapuche Communty of Patagonia. Econ. Bot. 55(2),243–254.
  • Langdale-Brown I (1959): The Vegetation of the Eastern Province of Uganda, memoirs of the Research Division, series II: vegetation, number 1. Entebbe: Department of Agriculture, Kawanda Research Station.
  • Maredia MK, Byerlee D & Pee P (2000): Impacts of food crop improvement research: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. Food Policy 25, 531–559.
  • National Research Council (1996): Lost Crops of Africa. Vol 1: Grains. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
  • Okigbo BN (1986): Broadening the food base in Africa: the potential of traditional food plants. Food Nutr. 12(1),4–17.
  • Ollicr CD & Harrop F (1959): The Soils of the Eastern Province of Uganda: A Reconnaissance Survey, memoirs of the Research Division, series I: soils, number 2. Kampala Department of Agriculture, Kawanda Research Station.
  • Pinstrup-Andersen P & Pandya-Lorch R (1996): Food for all in 2020: can the world be fed without damaging the environment? Environ. Conservation 23(3),226–234.
  • Plotkin MJ (1988): The outlook for new agricultural and industrial products from the tropics. In Biodiversity, ed. EO Wilson, pp 106–116. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
  • Purseglove JW (1970): The origins and migratious of crops in tropical Africa. In Origins of African Plant Domestica-tion, eds JR HarIan, JMJ de Wet & ABI. Stemler, pp. 292–309. Paris: Mouton Publishers.
  • Shackleton SE, Dzerefos CM, Shackleton CM & Mathabela FR (1998): Use and trading of wild edible herbs in the central Lowveld Savanna region, South Africa. Econ. Bot. 52(3),251–259.
  • Smith LC, El Obeid AE & Jensen HH (2000): The geography and causes of food insecurity in developing countries. Agric. Econ. 22, 199–215.
  • Somnasang P & Moreno-Black G (2000): Knowing, gather- ing and eating: knowledge and attitudes about wild food in an Isan village in Northeastern Thailand. J. Ethnobiol. 20(2),197–216.
  • Statistics Department (1992): The 1991 Population and Housing Census: District Summary Series. Kamuli Dis-trict. Entebbe: Statistics Department, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Uganda.
  • Tabuti JRS, Dhillion SS & Lye KA (2003): Ethnoveterinary medicines for cattle (Bos indicus) in Bulamogi County, Uganda: Plant species and mode of use. J. Ethnopharma-col. 88, 279–286.
  • ten Kate K & Laird S (1999): The Commercial Use of Biodiversity: Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing. London: Earthscan.
  • Uganda Bureau of Statistics (2000): Statistical Abstracts, 2000. Entebbe: Statistics Department, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Uganda.
  • Uganda Government (1963): Map Series Y732: Sheets 52/2, 52/4, 53/3, 62/2, 63/1, scale 1:50 000, edition I-DOS. Entebbe: Directorate of Overseas Survey for Uganda Government.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.