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Edible forest? Rethinking Nepal's forest governance in the era of food insecurity
- Source :
- International Forestry Review. 18:265-279
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2016.
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Abstract
- SUMMARY The problem of food insecurity is growing, triggering global debates on the gap in understanding alternative ways of accessing foods, including those from forestlands. This paper aims to address this gap by demonstrating a variety of ways in which forests carry the potential to contribute to food security, drawing on the case study of community based forest management in Nepal. It shows that forests not only complement farms in providing foods in critical periods, but also provide an important platform for collective actions, which have the potential to enhance smallholders' entitlement to food. The paper, then, identifies barriers in the current policy framework to capitalize on the potential of forests to enhance food security. An important implication of this finding is that there is an urgent need to reframe forest governance to incorporate food security concerns, without necessarily compromising forests' role in biodiversity conservation.
- Subjects :
- 040101 forestry
Food security
Ecology
business.industry
Natural resource economics
Corporate governance
Geography, Planning and Development
Environmental resource management
Forest management
Forestry
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Cognitive reframing
Entitlement
Variety (cybernetics)
Food insecurity
Agriculture
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20537778 and 14655489
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Forestry Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d58f8e70a61cc4c94e44e81e1c4563e1