Women farm workers near Ghanzi, Botswana, still go into the bush to gossip and snack on wild plants. Gathering once provided 70 percent of the Bushman diet, but ancient scrubland has been converted to cattle ranches. Now government relief provides the bulk of the people's food.
—From "Bushmen: Last Stand for Southern Africa’s First People," February 2001, National Geographic magazine
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