Food environment components influencing consumption trends of neglected and underutilized species in northern Benin

Bissola Malikath Verena Bankole; Waliou Amoussa Hounkpatin; Sam Bodjrenou; Julia Bodecker; Lynn Julen; Flora Josiane Chadare; Celine Termote

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0314438

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Food environment components influencing consumption trends of neglected and underutilized species in northern Benin

Bissola Malikath Verena Bankole ,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bmalikath73@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Nutrition, Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agronomics Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic, Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3561-9893

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Waliou Amoussa Hounkpatin,

Affiliations School of Nutrition, Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agronomics Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic, Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic
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Sam Bodjrenou,

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Nutrition, Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Agronomics Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic, Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic
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Julia Bodecker ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Bodecker, Flora Josiane Chadare, Celine Termote

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, Nairobi, Kenya
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Lynn Julen,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Data curation, Conceptualization

Affiliation University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Flora Josiane Chadare ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Bodecker, Flora Josiane Chadare, Celine Termote

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Science and Technology of Food and Bioresources and Human Nutrition, Sakété University Center, National University of Agriculture, Sakété, Benin Republic
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Celine Termote

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Bodecker, Flora Josiane Chadare, Celine Termote

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, Nairobi, Kenya
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Food environment components influencing consumption trends of neglected and underutilized species in northern Benin

Bissola Malikath Verena Bankole,
Waliou Amoussa Hounkpatin,
Sam Bodjrenou,
Julia Bodecker,
Lynn Julen,
Flora Josiane Chadare,
Celine Termote

Published: September 3, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314438

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