Edible forest? Rethinking Nepal's forest governance in the era of food insecurity
Edible forest? Rethinking Nepal's forest governance in the era of food insecurity
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DOI：
10.1505/146554816819501646
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Bhattarai, B.
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作者：
Adhikari, J.;Ojha, H.;Bhattarai, B.
粮食不安全问题日益严重，引发了全球对包括从森林获取食物在内的其他获取食物方式的理解差距的辩论。本文旨在通过展示森林具有促进粮食安全潜力的各种方式来解决这一差距，并借鉴尼泊尔基于社区的森林管理案例研究。研究表明，森林不仅在关键时期补充农场提供粮食，而且还提供了一个重要的集体行动平台，这有可能提高小农获得粮食的权利。因此，本文指出了当前政策框架中存在的障碍，无法利用森林的潜力来加强粮食安全。这一发现的一个重要含义是，迫切需要在不损害森林在生物多样性保护中的作用的情况下，重新构建森林治理，以纳入粮食安全问题。
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.