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Mammalian wildlife as a food supply resource for the rural population in the Lama Forest Reserve (South Benin) |
Cahiers Agricultures. Volume 13, Number 4, 341-7, Juillet-Août 2004, Étude originale
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Author(s) : Jean T. Claude Codjia, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo |
Summary : With the exception of a few studies about rodents, very few surveys have been undertaken on the importance of wildlife as a source of food supply for the rural populations of South Benin. The aim of the present study which was conducted in the Lama Forest Reserve (South Benin) is to find how mammals in this forest contribute to the food security of the local population living in its surroundings. The study was carried out in two phases: a food consumption survey among two local ethnic groups ‐‐ the Fons (village of Don‐Zoukoutoudja) and the Hollis (village of Agadjaligbo), and a field survey for the assessment of the mammals living in the forest, using the Line Transect method. An overall number of 29 mammal species were identified as a source of proteins for local populations: rodents (12 species), artiodactyls (7 species), primates (4 species) and 7 other various species. Despite the diversity of the mammal species consumed in those two localities, the meat preferred by the populations were the
Potamochoerus porcus, the
Grass cutter (
Thrionomys swenderianus),
and the African giant rat (
Cricetomys gambianus). |
Keywords : Livestock Farming\; Food, Consumption, Nutrition. |
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