Inter Press ServiceSnails boost food, medicine production https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/snails-boost-food-medicine-production/ News and Views from the Global South Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:09:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Snails boost food, medicine production https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/snails-boost-food-medicine-production/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/snails-boost-food-medicine-production/#respond Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:25:38 +0000 IPS Correspondents http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=110898

By IPS Correspondents
Jul 12 2012 (IPS)

Starting plantation farming in Cameroon in the 1980’s, and the spraying of pesticides, almost drove certain snail species to extinction. But farmers in the coastal regions of Cameroon are now cultivating the animals for food, traditional medicine and income.

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