TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptual links between landscape diversity and diet diversity
T2 - A roadmap for transdisciplinary research
AU - Gergel, Sarah E.
AU - Powell, Bronwen
AU - Baudron, Frédéric
AU - Wood, Sylvia L.R.
AU - Rhemtulla, Jeanine M.
AU - Kennedy, Gina
AU - Rasmussen, Laura V.
AU - Ickowitz, Amy
AU - Fagan, Matthew E.
AU - Smithwick, Erica A.H.
AU - Ranieri, Jessica
AU - Wood, Stephen A.
AU - Groot, Jeroen C.J.
AU - Sunderland, Terry C.H.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Food security and nutrition
KW - Landscape approach
KW - Remote sensing
KW - Restoration
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Tropical forest conservation
U2 - 10.1093/biosci/biaa048
DO - 10.1093/biosci/biaa048
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85080121271
SN - 0006-3568
VL - 70
SP - 563
EP - 575
JO - Bioscience
JF - Bioscience
IS - 7
ER -