Review Article
Potential and Transformation of Indigenous Floral Foods in Africa: What Research Tells Over the Past Two Decades (2000–2022)
Table 3
Spread of indigenous foods articles published in Africa in the past two decades and their focus areas.
| | Publication related areas/objective 2000–2022 | Proportion of research type in niche areas | Fraction of research type/design of the article in each niche area | | Review | Interview/data collection | Lab/field experiment |
| | Frequency/per | Frequency/per | Frequency/per | Frequency/per | | Domestication | 93 (9.78) | 50 (53.76) | 18 (19.35) | 25 (26.88) | | Genetic improvement and related issues | 11 (1.16) | 4 (36.36) | 2 (18.18) | 5 (45.45) | | Awareness/perception | 36 (3.79) | 5 (13.89) | 29 (80.56) | 2 (5.56) | | Ethnobotanical/medicinal value | 231 (24.29) | 93 (40.26) | 112 (48.48) | 26 (11.26) | | Food security | 182 (19.14) | 71 (39.01) | 111 (60.99) | 0 (0) | | Nutrition security | 88 (9.25) | 41 (46.59) | 18 (20.45) | 29 (32.95) | | Processing and value addition | 57 (5.99) | 25 (43.86) | 23 (40.35) | 9 (15.79) | | Cultural use | 9 (0.95) | 3 (33.33) | 6 (66.67) | 0 (0) | | Income | 85 (8.94) | 45 (52.94) | 40 (47.06) | 0 (0) | | Market structure/marketing of indigenous foods | 47 (4.94) | 31 (65.96) | 16 (34.04) | 0 () | | Commercialization | 40 (4.21) | 26 (65.00) | 14 (35.00) | − 0 (0) | | Policy, law, and programmed | 13 (1.37) | 8 (61.54) | 5 (38.46) | 0 (0) | | Econometrics analysis such as efficiency, profitability, and cost analysis | 4 (0.42) | 0 () | 4 (100.00) | 0 (0) | | Diseases and pest related challenge | 6 (0.63) | 3 (50.00) | 3 (50.00) | 0 (0) | | Management of indigenous crops | 16 (1.68) | 5 (31.25) | 8 (50.00) | 3 (18.75) | | Diversification | 33 (3.47) | 18 (54.55) | 14 (42.42) | 1 (3.03) | | Total | 951 (100.00) | 406 (45.01) | 394 (43.68) | 102 (11.31) |
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Note. Authors 2023 composed of 951 published articles in four African countries between 2000 and 2022.
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