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Table 19.4 Continued

Summarized area
characteristics

Country /Region Number of species References

Tanzania Agricultural, tropical

forest, East Usambara
mountains

46 Hårkönen and

Vainio-Mattila 1998

Tanzania Batemi agropastoralists,

semi-arid (with 35 wild
species cultivated)

44 Johns et al. 1996

Uganda Agricultural households

in SW Uganda (some wild
species cultivated and
gathered from the wild)

94 Musinguzi et al. 2006.

Zambia Countrywide estimate 15-25 Pegler and Pearce 1980

Source : Bharucha and Pretty (2010)

Table 19.5. The diversity of species of wild foods used by 12 indigenous
communities (adapted from Kuhnlein et al. 2009)1

Study area Total

species
used No. Cultural Group Region Ecosystem Flora Fauna

1 Awajan Peruvian Amazon Tropical

forest

93 11 3 206

2 Bhil Gujarat, India Tropical forest 68 23 91

3 Dalit Andhra Pradesh, India Semi-arid 179 40 212

4 Karen Thungyai Naresuan

National Wildlife
Sanctuary, Thailand

Tropical;
paddy
cultivation

252 63 315

5 Mand

(Pohnpei)

Pacific Ocean,
Federated States of
Micronesia

Tropical 67 162 229

6 Igbo Southern Nigeria Tropical 171 45 216

7 Ingano Colombian Amazon Tropical forest NA 2 92 (92 + NA)

8 Ainu Saru River Valley,

Japan

Riverine 10 3 13

9 Maasai Kajiado District,

Kenya

Semi-arid 33 21 54

10 Inuit Canadian Territory

of Nunavut

Polar 15 64 79

11 Nuxalk Bella Coola, British

Columbia

Polar 42 25 67

12 Tetlit Gwich'in Canadian Arctic Polar 15 35 50

1 Communities 1-7 are formally seen as farming communities.
2 NA = total cannot be accurately ascertained from original text as named traditional species are a mix
of wild and cultivated.