Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The take-home messages on forests and food security and nutrition are essentially that:
Diverse forest and tree-based production systems offer advantages over monocropping systems because of their adaptability and resilience.
Forest and tree-based production systems most often contribute the diverse nutrient-rich foods that are often in short supply in the diets of the poor.
There are a multitude of ecosystem services provided by forests and trees that simultaneously support food production, nutrition, sustainability as well as environmental and human health.
Managing landscapes on a multifunctional basis in a way that integrates food production, biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem services can contribute significantly to global food and nutritional security
Forests and trees alone will not achieve global food security, but can play a major role: discourse has started to change. Policy reform and implementation to reflect this shifting paradigm now needs to take place.
Authors: Trey Sunderland, Amy Ickowitz
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3158043568