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A social-ecological assessment of food security and biodiversity conservation in Ethiopia

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ECOSYSTEMS AND PEOPLE
卷 17, 期 1, 页码 400-410

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2021.1952306

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Albert Norstrom; Agroecology; land sharing; land sparing; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability science; transdisciplinarity

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  1. H2020 Marie-Curie-Actions [661780]
  2. European Research Council [614278]
  3. FP7 People
  4. Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [661780] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
  5. European Research Council (ERC) [614278] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)

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The study emphasizes the importance of a multifaceted, social-ecological approach in addressing challenges around food security and biodiversity conservation. While specialist species require undisturbed forests, farmland also plays a crucial role in supporting various species and ecosystem services. Diversified livelihoods can enhance smallholder food security, but lack of access to resources and crop raiding by wild animals can have negative impacts on food security.
We studied food security and biodiversity conservation from a social-ecological perspective in southwestern Ethiopia. Specialist tree, bird, and mammal species required large, undisturbed forest, supporting the notion of 'land sparing' for conservation. However, our findings also suggest that forest areas should be embedded within a multifunctional landscape matrix (i.e. 'land sharing'), because farmland also supported many species and ecosystem services and was the basis of diversified livelihoods. Diversified livelihoods improved smallholder food security, while lack of access to capital assets and crop raiding by wild forest animals negatively influenced food security. Food and biodiversity governance lacked coordination and was strongly hierarchical, with relatively few stakeholders being highly powerful. Our study shows that issues of livelihoods, access to resources, governance and equity are central when resolving challenges around food security and biodiversity. A multi-facetted, social-ecological approach is better able to capture such complexity than the conventional, two-dimensional land sparing versus sharing framework.

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