Collection, consumption and sale of lusala (Dioscorea hirtiflora), a wild yam, by rural households in the Southern Province of Zambia Article Published Version Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY) Open access Zulu, D., Ellis, R. H. and Culham, A. (2019) Collection, consumption and sale of lusala (Dioscorea hirtiflora), a wild yam, by rural households in the Southern Province of Zambia. Economic Botany, 73 (1). pp. 47-63. ISSN 0013-0001 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-018-9433-3 Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/79054/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . To link to this article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12231-018-9433-3 Publisher: Springer All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online Collection, Consumption, and Sale of Lusala (Dioscorea hirtiflora)—aWildYam—by Rural Households in Southern Province, Zambia 1,2 ,1 2 DONALD ZULU ,RICHARD H. ELLIS* , AND ALASTAIR CULHAM 1School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK 2School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, UK *Corresponding author; e-mail:
[email protected] Dioscorea hirtiflora Benth. is an indigenous wild edible tuberous climbing plant native to Zambia.