ABSTRACT
The significance of gathered or hunted resources to African livelihoods has received increasing attention in recent years. These are here defined as plant and animal resources, generally indigenous as opposed to introduced or ‘alien’ species, that are hunted, gathered or otherwise procured from the wider landscape rather than cultivated or husbanded close to homesteads and settlements. Although called ‘natural’ or ‘wild’, most have been influenced over millennia by African peoples utilising and inhabiting the continent’s diverse landscapes.
