As food prices skyrocket and shortages abound, the people of Zimbabwe are turning to foraged wild food to keep them alive.
Dr Maud Muchuweti and his team are trying to create more awareness on the value of indigenous wild plant food.
In Africa, indigenous plant knowledge is rapidly being forgotten, as the landbase is turned into commercial food production for the West.
Dr Muchuweti says that wild food plants are still not being sufficiently valued for the contributions they can make in preventing malnutrition and for survival strategies.
What shocked me while I was filming Frank Cook, was when he told us that while visiting Africa, he saw malnourished children sitting right next to edible wild food plants. The global indigenous plant knowledge around the world is being lost.
As global warming escalates, crop failures increase, food prices increase and dependence on commercial farming becomes the mainstay of our society, it is important that we do not forget our own indigenous plant knowledge.
We might not be Africa, but who knows what the future holds.
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