The Contribution of Wild Fungi to Diet, Income and Health: A World Review

Román, M. de

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“…Two published reviews discuss local knowledge on soil biology for the African region for termites (Sileshi et al 2009) and pests and pathogens (Sekamatte and Okwakol 2007). Related topics where reviews have proven insightful include: entomophagy (insect-eating; Gahukar 2011); environmental manipulation for insect procurement (Van Itterbeeck and Van Huis 2012); traditional pest management (Morales 2002); entomotherapy (medicinal uses of insects; CostaNeto 2005); and local ecological knowledge of fungi (de Roman 2010), insects (Posey 1986), and soils (ethnopedology; BarreraBassols andZinck 2003, WinklerPrins andBarrera-Bassols 2004). Much has been written and reviewed on local knowledge of soil physical and chemical properties as well as soil, land, and water management (see Barrera-Bassols and Zinck 2000), but soil biological knowledge is far less widely reported.…”

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Farmers’ knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

Pauli¹,

Abbott²,

Negrete‐Yankelevich³

et al. 2016

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Farmers’ knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

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Abbott²,

Negrete‐Yankelevich³

et al. 2016

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“…In general, the water accounts for between 85% to 95% in the fresh weight of the wild edible fungi, protein content is between 16% to 35%, carbohydrate content is between 28% to 39.9%, and fat content is between 2% to 6%, containing Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Se, P, Zn and other essential elements required by the human body (Na content is extremely low in wild edible fungi), being rich in oleic acids, linoleic acids and other unsaturated fatty acids, as well as containing abundant vitamins (including vitamin A, B, C, D and K), these characteristic determine the wild edible fungi to be an excellent healthy eating product (Mirian, 2010). Besides, Yunnan people are fond of eating wild fungi.…”

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“…In addition, the wild edible fungi has a large market due to its unique flavor, texture or special health care function (Pavel, 2009;Mirian, 2010), only the annual trading quantities of truffles, Tricholoma matsutakes, Boletus edulis and Chanterelles have reached 0.306 million tons and the trading volume have reached 2.87 billion dollars around the world (Xiong, 2014). As a type of forest product with important economic value, wild edible fungi occupies considerable proportions on the peasant household incomes in the vast mountainous areas in Yunnan (Lv et al, 2007;Yang, 2008;Xu et al, 2014).…”

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An Overview of Wild Edible Fungi Resource Conservation and Its Utilization in Yunnan

Hua¹,

Zhen²,

Fu³

2017

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As one of the province with the most abundant bio-diversity in China, Yunnan is also one of the most-concerned region in the world which is famous for its bio-diversity. The wild edible fungi resources in Yunnan are extremely rich and diverse, which account for nearly 40.7% of the world's known resources and 90% of China's known resource respectively. Serving as one important type of forest understory resource and product, the wild edible fungi has a large market due to its unique flavor, texture or special health care function. Therefore, sustainable utilization of the wild edible fungi resource is of paramount importance to develop the rural livelihood and furthermore conserve forest and animal resources in Yunnan. Integrating a large number of previous researches, this paper has summarized the current situations of edible fungi resources as well as the existing problems on production, food, medicine utilization, processing, trade and resource conservation inYunnan. Data showed that the wild edible fungi resources are playing extremely important roles on the peasant household incomes in the vast mountainous areas in Yunnan. For example, the fungi collection incomes can account for 50% to 80% of the household income in Xishuangbanna. However, the wild edible fungi resources are facing the problems of the reductions in resource types and quantities, unclear ownership, improper collection and conservation measures, unscientific management as well as other outstanding issues. The author point out that it is quite essential to clear the ownership, implement the community-based conservation strategies as well as to strengthen the researches on the scientific collection, conservation and breeding technologies in order to solve the problems in the effective conservation and sustainable utilization of the wild edible fungi resources in the future.

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“…Wild mushroom gathering dates back to 900 BC in China [9]. Gathered foods included fruits, relish of plant leaves, roots, and mushrooms [3].…”

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“…Around one billion people worldwide are reported to consume gathered foods and three hundred million consumed forest foods as at the beginning of the current millennium [3]. These foods have a significant contribution to dietary enrichment, medicinal and trade value for many communities [9]. Although work has been done to analyze the dietary value of some mushrooms, the extent to which such foods have been included in rural household diets has not been systematically studied among Southern African communities.…”

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Miombo Woodland Mushrooms of Commercial Food Value: A Survey of Central Districts of Zimbabwe

Mlambo¹,

Maphosa²

2017

JFS

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Wild Miombo woodlands mushrooms are a largely ignored nutrition-boosting food and source of income among rural communities of Southern Africa. A survey was conducted in the Gweru, Kwekwe, Shurugwi and Mvuma districts of Zimbabwe to establish the importance of this natural resource in household poverty reduction.Gathered quantities and sales realized were recorded through structured personal interviews targeting two thirds of gatherers with equal numbers of male and female respondents and one key informant in each site. Results showed that of 14 gathered mushroom species (orders Cantharellales, Amanitales and Termitomycetes) across all sites, five species were of varying commercial value. Amanita loosii was the most traded and the only one with available data on sales. Ranked according to their gathered volumes by percent respondents per gathering occasion were A. loosii (97.48%), Termitomyces le-testui (72.94%) (non-mycorrhizal), Cantharellus heinemannianus (62.96%), Lactarius kabansus (46.72%) and C. miomboensis (37.04%). Average selling prices for A. loosii ranged from US$0.10 to US$1.00 per litre (about 600 grammes) across all sites. Average sales per site for a gathering occasion ranged between 20 and 400 litres per vendor across the sites, although up to 800 litres was recorded at Blinkwater for three gatherers. Principal Components Analysis biplots showed Blinkwater and Sebakwe sites had strong associations with high sales volumes and high sales value of A. loosii. It was concluded that, A. loosii, in particular, contributed to an important food and income source in the studied sites, with some communities having a large potential to raise these incomes beyond their current levels provided gathering and marketing methods were improved.

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The Contribution of Wild Fungi to Diet, Income and Health: A World Review

Cited by 15 publications

References 76 publications

Farmers’ knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

Farmers’ knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

An Overview of Wild Edible Fungi Resource Conservation and Its Utilization in Yunnan

Miombo Woodland Mushrooms of Commercial Food Value: A Survey of Central Districts of Zimbabwe

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The Contribution of Wild Fungi to Diet, Income and Health: A World Review

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Farmers&#8217; knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

Farmers&#8217; knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

An Overview of Wild Edible Fungi Resource Conservation and Its Utilization in Yunnan

Miombo Woodland Mushrooms of Commercial Food Value: A Survey of Central Districts of Zimbabwe

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Farmers’ knowledge and use of soil fauna in agriculture: a worldwide review

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