Sammanfattning

The growing challenge of food insecurity in the Global South has called for new research on the contribution of forests to food security. However, even progressive forest management institutions such as Nepal's community forestry programme have failed to address this issue. We analyse Nepal's community forestry programme and find that forest policies and local institutional practices have historically evolved to regulate forests either as sources of timber or as a means of biodiversity conservation, disregarding food security outcomes for local people. Disciplinary divisions between forestry and the agriculture sector have limited the prospect of strengthening forest-food security linkages. We conclude that the policy and legislative framework and formal bureaucratic practices are influenced by modern forestry science', which led to community forestry rules and practices not considering the contribution of forests to food security. Furthermore, forestry science has a particularly narrow focus on timber production and conservation. We argue for the need to recognise the importance of local knowledge and community practices of using forests for food. We propose adaptive and transformational approaches to knowledge generation and the application of such knowledge in order to support institutional change and policy reform and to enable landscape-specific innovations in forest-food linkages.

Nyckelord

food security; community forestry; forestry science; policy; institutions; resource governance

Publicerad i

Environmental Conservation
2017, Volym: 44, nummer: 2, sidor: 174-182

SLU författare

• Khatri, Dil

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • ForestAction Nepal

• Pain, Adam

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

Framtidens skogar (tom Jan 2017)
Skog
SLU Future Forests


Globala målen

SDG2 Avskaffa hunger, uppnå tryggad livsmedelsförsörjning och förbättrad nutrition samt främja ett hållbart jordbruk
SDG17 Stärka genomförandemedlen och återvitalisera det globala partnerskapet för hållbar utveckling


UKÄ forskningsämne

Kulturgeografi
Tvärvetenskapliga studier


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892916000369

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/81125