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.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center under funding received from the National Science Foundation (grant no. DBI-1052875). LVR was supported by a Banting Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. SEG was supported by the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Center for International Forestry Research and the United States Agency for International Development’s Forestry and Biodiversity Office.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center under funding received from the National Science Foundation (grant no. DBI-1052875). LVR was supported by a Banting Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. SEG was supported by the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Center for International Forestry Research and the United States Agency for International Development?s Forestry and Biodiversity Office.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
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.
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U2 - 10.1093/biosci/biaa048
DO - 10.1093/biosci/biaa048
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32665737
AN - SCOPUS:85080121271
SN - 0006-3568
VL - 70
SP - 563
EP - 575
JO - BioScience
JF - BioScience
IS - 7
ER -
