Table 3.

Food insecurity among forest food consumers and non-forest food consumers in southern and eastern Cameroon in May 2012

HFIAS†	Percentage among forest food consumers (n 239)‡	Percentage among non-forest food consumers (n 40)§	P value
Food secure (0)	18·8	2·6	<0·0001
Mild (1–13)	67·5	71·8	<0·0001
Moderate (14–16)	7·9	5·1	<0·0001
Severe (17–27)	5·8	20·5	<0·0001

^†Household Food Insecurity Access Scale; total score (range 0–27) is calculated from the individual scores of the nine frequency-of-occurrence questions and categorized into four levels of household food insecurity. Numbers in parentheses represent the cut-off of HFIAS score for each food security category.

^‡Eating at least one forest food in the 7 d recall period.

^§Did not eat forest foods in 7 d recall period.