Linkages among forests, food security and livelihoods
A comparative analysis of tropical dry forests and tropical wet evergreen forests in Sri Lanka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19586372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D V P Prasada (0000-0002-0525-454X, University of Peradeniya, corresponding author), Illias Animon (UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office), Sooyeon Laura Jin (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Pages | 100609 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Trees Forests and People (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2666-7193 • E-ISSN: 2666-7193 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100609 |
| OpenAlex | W4399713650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
Forests are increasingly recognised as an important contributor to food security and nutrition, especially for the poorest people, in various ways. Their roles and impacts including the degree of access to forest-based nutrition to the poorer segments however vary depending on the specific geographic and socio-political contexts and forest types. This study examines the nature of forest dependence for food security and nutrition in two dominant forest types in Sri Lanka, namely dry humid forest and wet evergreen forests. Proportionate to the forest cover area in either forest system, this study enumerated 500 households in the dry forest ecology and 190 households in the wet evergreen forest ecology. The findings provide a first quantitative benchmarking of the nature of forest food collection and modelling of the socio-demographic factors determining the forest food collection in the Sri Lankan context. The results show that food produce collection in terms of quantity and value are significantly higher in the wet evergreen forest system and the factors driving the dependence on forests are tied to agricultural involvement of the households. Other factors such as economic status, education, accessibility of the forest emerge statistically insignificant. On the other hand, in dry humid forests, economic status and access to forest become significant factors. Evidence confirms the location specific nature of forest food connection and make the case for context-relevant interventions to foster forest-food interface
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Agronomy · Biology · Dry zone · Environmental planning · Evergreen · Evergreen forest · Food security · Geography · Livelihood · Sri lanka · Tanzania · Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests · Tropical Asia · Tropical forest · Tropics · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Ecology · Forestry
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |