Throughout history people have foraged for local foods and used them in cooking, so what’s changed in the last few decades?
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Blending livelihood strategies based on what works at different times in specific environments has been key to human survival for thousands of years.
As the world deals with COVID-19, the sustainable use of wild species is a critical coping and resilience strategy.
Local people are caught in an impossible situation – stay home and starve or venture out to buy food, potentially bringing the virus home too.
Why do people choose to drop the spending and devote their time to another way of living?
Prince Charles is among those repeating their calls for an organised cull of grey squirrels in Britain as a way of helping the declining native red squirrel. Despite being larger and stronger than their…
In the UK, the wild food trend has re-acquainted people with the various edible plants to be found in the countryside. But around the world wild foods are relied on by a billion people as a key part of…
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Senior Lecturer in Food and Nutritional Sciences, London Metropolitan University
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