Household food security among Hadza hunter-gatherers in Mkalama district, Tanzania

Table 3 Distribution of respondents by current availability of wild food resources of animal and plant origin

Type^a	Hadza name	Botanical name	N	Very low (0.25)	Low (0.5)	High (0.75)	Sum of index (I)
Meat	Komati	Taurotragus oryx	86	68	6	12	0.337
Meat	Nakomako	Syncerus caffer	48	32	11	5	0.359
Meat	Molola	Canis adustus	123	60	58	5	0.388
Meat	Gewedako	Madoqua kirkii	93	34	53	6	0.425
Berry	K’alahaibe	Opilia campestris Engl	89	29	55	5	0.433
Berry	Kongolobii	Grewia bicolor Juss	86	28	51	8	0.442
Berry	Thakuayabe	Cordia villosa	65	20	39	6	0.446
Berry	Ngwilabee	Grewia similis K. Schum	74	22	42	10	0.459
Berry	Ondoshibii	Cordia gharaf Ehrenb	107	25	70	12	0.470
Berry	Embelebii	Grewia flavescens Juss	150	20	109	22	0.503
Tuber	Shukumo	Vatovaea pseudolablab	106	27	58	21	0.486
Tuber	Makalita	Ipomoea transvaalensis	133	10	105	19	0.517
Tuber	Matukwayako	Coccinea surantiaca	144	17	99	28	0.520
Tuber	Maqalit'ako	Eminia entennulifa	72	13	37	22	0.531
Tuber	Do’aiko	Vigna macrorhyncha	152	10	110	32	0.536
Tuber	//Ekwa hasa	Vigna frutescens	196	34	94	68	0.544
Baobab	N//obabe	Adansonia digitate L	160	17	86	57	0.563

^aOnly individuals who were involved in searching for a given wild species were requested to rank the availability of the wild species in question; no wild food was rated “very high (1)” in its availability

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