Food security and pro-poor-oriented forest and landscape management: Evidence from initiatives in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a global biodiversity hotspot and boasts a large land extent occupied by agriculture and agroforestry. Forest and tree-based solutions offer opportunities to reduce rural poverty and food and nutrition insecurity, exacerbated in rural regions that are more vulnerable to climate change. Accordingly, enhancing forestry as a means to improving rural conditions through livelihood opportunities is considered by the government as an important measure. This article reports the initial results from such a project that considers piloting food and medicinal forests and related value chains. It presents the assessment of socio- economic impacts of past forestry management interventions that could help develop a roadmap for innovative food-security and pro-poor oriented forest and landscape management practices. It also describes the efforts made to ensure the sustainability of project results. The project results can help in promoting community-based forest management that can be resource efficient and socially inclusive within the targeted populations of the post-conflict region. Ensuring social stability through such forestry interventions and enhancing community knowledge on landscape management has long-term favourable implications on creating a green economy. It advances efforts as part of the United Nations Decades on Ecosystem Restoration and Family Farming. Keywords: Food security, Nutrition, Species enrichment, forest business development, Sri Lanka ID: 3487086
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| Format: | Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2022
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cc1620en http://www.fao.org/3/cc1620en/cc1620en.pdf |
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