A missed opportunity for research and development interventions: gender and the forest food trade in urban Cameroon

Urbanisation rates in Africa are twice the global average, and “cities are fast becoming epicentres of the food security challenge in Africa” (Crush et al. 2012: 287). Despite development-focused policies and action, “poverty remains persistent” across most of Africa (Ingram et al. 2014: 68). In this context, there has also been “limited job creation amongst the poor”, and the gender implications of these trends are worth probing.