Traditional leafy vegetables and their use in the Benin Republic

By A. Dansi, A. Adjatin, H. Adoukonou-Sagbadja, V. Faladé, H. Yédomonhan, D. Odou, B. Dossou. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2008

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Eating from the wild: Turumbu, Mbole and Bali traditional knowledge on non-cultivated edible plants, District Tshopo, DRCongo (2011, methodology): “The DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) is a biological hotspot, being the 5th most biodiverse country on earth (Counsell 2006) and hosting almost half of Africa’s rainforests.”
Promoting competitiveness of neglected and underutilized crop species: comparative analysis of nutritional composition of indigenous and exotic leafy and fruit vegetables in Ghana (2014, background): “These findings agree with results of Adjatin et al. (2013), Dansi et al. (2008), and Abukutsa-Onyango (2004) who reported that indigenous African vegetables are rich in carbohydrates, protein, crude fiber and energy, minerals and vitamins.”
Diversity, conservation and related wild species of Fonio millet (Digitaria spp.) in the northwest of Benin (2010, methodology): “To preserve the existing landraces against genetic erosion, germplasm collection and conservation ex situ is a necessity (Plucknett et al. 1983; Brown and Marshall 1995; Dansi et al. 2008a, b).”