Use and socio-economic importance of wild edible plants in tropical rainforest around Kisangani, District Tshopo, DR Congo Universiteit Gent
The project ‘Wild Edible Plants’ (WEP) inventories all wild edible plants in the district Tshopo and investigates their nutritional, socio-economic and cultural importance. The final objective is to compose a hierarchical list of the species and set priorities for further research and domestication of WEPs. Some experiences of a preliminary field research period from July to September 2006 are combined with a first impression of the results (in ...