Fig 1.
Map of Zimbabwe showing bambara groundnut surveyed districts and agro-ecological zones.
Regions III (Uzumba and Binga), IV (Buhera, Mudzi, Pfungwe and Lower Gweru) and V (Bikita) receive 500–800 mm, 450–650 mm and < 450 mm, respectively.
Table 1.
Demographic profile of respondents in the surveyed districts per agro-ecological region in Zimbabwe.
Table 2.
Type of data collected from focus group discussions and formal interviews.
Table 3.
Land allocation to crops and bambara groundnut seed selection in districts.
Fig 2.
Bambara groundnut production across districts (as percentage of respondents).
Shelled bambara groundnut production is categorised as low (30–180 kg), medium (181–360 kg) and high (361–600 kg) at a 60% shelling percentage.
Fig 3.
Bambara groundnut processing into various products in the semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe.
The white boxes indicate processing steps and grey boxes indicate intermediate products. Green, yellow and orange are used to explain the scale of adoption and popularity of the products. Green indicates products already largely used, orange and yellow are products with minimum use. The products in orange are suggested for further improvement.
Table 4.
Preferred bambara groundnut-based products and their major processing practices according to agro-ecological zone and district (as percentage of respondents).
Table 5.
Constraints to bambara groundnut cooking according to agro-ecological zone and district (as percentage of respondents).
Fig 4.
Consumption frequency of bambara groundnut in various districts (as percentage of respondents).
Fig 5.
Relationship between consumption frequency of bambara groundnut and preferred attributes (as percentage of respondents).