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Techniques for gathering food
Food gathering takes place in the wild or on cultivated land. However, gathering food from cultivated land, or ‘harvesting’, is nowadays mainly a mechanised, industrialised production process, while gathering food in the wild has hardly evolved since prehistoric times. Nowadays practised as a leisure activity in industrialised countries, it is governed by legal directives regulating the quantities that may be gathered and the tools that may be used, in order to protect biodiversity.