Tanzania plant based foods

Source: National Forest Resources Monitoring and Assessment of Tanzania (NAFORMA). 2015. Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania. Methodology: The map shows the locations of NAFORMA clusters where edible plants were observed. Background: Non-timber forest products are important benefits that the forest provide to the population of Tanzania. REDD+ activities could be designed to assist communities to sustainably extract subsistence or income sources from the forest, where possible. Edible and medicinal plants were observed in most parts of the country. The NAFORMA inventory found that nearly 30% of interviewed household collected plant-based food from the forest.