Journal
BIOSCIENCE
Volume 70, Issue 7, Pages 563-575Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaa048
Keywords
sustainable development; landscape approach; food security and nutrition; remote sensing; tropical forest conservation and restoration
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- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center under National Science Foundation [DBI-1052875]
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Huck Institute of the Life Sciences at Pennsylvania State University
- Center for International Forestry Research
- United States Agency for International Development's Forestry and Biodiversity Office
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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 the present article, we develop conceptual links between diet diversity and forested landscape mosaics within the rural tropics. First, we summarize the state of knowledge regarding diets obtained from forests, trees, and agroforests. We then hypothesize how disturbed secondary forests, edge habitats, forest access, and landscape diversity can function in bolstering dietary diversity. Taken together, these ideas help us build a framework illuminating four pathways (direct, agroecological, energy, and market pathways) connecting forested landscapes to diet diversity. Finally, we offer recommendations to fill remaining knowledge gaps related to diet and forest cover monitoring. We argue that better evaluation of the role of land cover complexity will help avoid overly simplistic views of food security and, instead, uncover nutritional synergies with forest conservation and restoration.
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