Transforming food systems with trees and forests

A Ickowitz, S McMullin, T Rosenstock… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The global food system is failing to deliver sufficient and nutritious food to all, while
damaging the earth and unsustainably drawing down its resources. We argue that trees and …

The role of forests and trees in poverty dynamics

P Jagger, JZ Cheek, D Miller, C Ryan… - Forest Policy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding the contribution of forests to poverty alleviation and human well-being has
never been more important. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are erasing gains in …

Deforestation reduces fruit and vegetable consumption in rural Tanzania

CM Hall, LV Rasmussen, B Powell… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Strategies to improve food and nutrition security continue to promote increasing food via
agricultural intensification. Little (if any) consideration is given to the role of natural …

Forests support people's food and nutrition security through multiple pathways in low-and middle-income countries

RS Olesen, CM Hall, LV Rasmussen - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Achieving food and nutrition security for the world's population while at the same time
reversing and minimizing damage to the natural environment is a grand societal challenge …

Wild foods contribute to women's higher dietary diversity in India

JZ Cheek, NJ Lambrecht, B Den Braber, N Akanchha… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Wild foods, from forests and common lands, can contribute to food and nutrition security.
Most previous studies have established correlations between wild food consumption and …

The need to include wild foods in climate change adaptation strategies

B Powell, ID Bhatt, M Mucioki, S Rana, S Rawat… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Declining wild food use has been reported around the world for decades, with important
implications for nutrition and well-being. Commonly listed threats include land-use change …

Reconciling conservation and development requires enhanced integration and broader aims: A cross-continental assessment of landscape approaches

N Estrada-Carmona, R Carmenta, J Reed… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Expectations for agricultural landscapes in subtropical and tropical regions are high, aiming
for conservation and development amid climate change, unfair trade, poverty, and …

Exploring the agricultural landscape diversity-food security nexus: an analysis in two contrasted parklands of Central Senegal

L Leroux, NF Faye, C Jahel, GN Falconnier, AA Diouf… - Agricultural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Fostering diversity within agricultural systems can substantially contribute to
improved food security among smallholder farmers. Agroforestry parklands are diverse …

Conceptual links between landscape diversity and diet diversity: a roadmap for transdisciplinary research

SE Gergel, B Powell, FÉÉ Baudron, SLR Wood… - Bioscience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Malnutrition linked to poor quality diets affects at least 2 billion people. Forests, as well as
agricultural systems linked to trees, are key sources of dietary diversity in rural settings. In …

A framework for analysing contextual factors shaping forest-poverty dynamics

JA Oldekop, M Gabay, D Humphreys… - Forest Policy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Forest and tree-based landscapes represent complex social-ecological systems. In tropical
and subtropical regions, these landscapes are home to hundreds of millions of resource …