The future of food : domestication and commercialization of indigenous food crops in africa over the third decade (2012–2021)

ROGER R.

LEAKEY B.

AVANA Tientcheu Marie-Louise

AWAZI Nyong Pricely

Agroécologie / agriculture biologique / agriculture de conservation

Agroforesterie

Commercialisation des produits agricoles

Sécurité alimentaire

This paper follows the transition from ethnobotany to a deeper scientific understanding of the food and medicinal properties of African agroforestry tree products as inputs into the start of domestication activities. It progresse on to the integration of these indigenous trees as new crops within diversified farming systems for multiple social, economic and environmental benefits. From its advent in the 1990s, the domestication of indigenous food and non-food tree species has become a global programme with a strong African focus. This review of progress in the third decade is restricted to progress in Africa, where multi-disciplinary research on over 59 species has been reported in 759 research papers in 318 science publications by scientists from over 833 research teams in 70 countries around the world (532 in Africa).

MDPI

2022

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Afrique (continent)

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