Food security effects of forest sector participation in rural Liberia

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI:10.1007/s12571-024-01468-7

Festus O. Amadu, Daniel C. Miller

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Forests can help rural households cope with food insecurity challenges in the face of climate change while also sequestering carbon and advancing other sustainability objectives in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As such, participation in the forestry sector can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially on hunger and food security (SDG 2) in forest rich, but economically poor areas of LMICs. However, analysis of the effects of forest sector participation on food security in such contexts remain limited. Here we estimate the effects of participation in forest-based activities like collection and processing of timber and non-timber forest products (NTFPs) on household food security in Liberia, the most forested country in West Africa. We applied endogenous switching poisson regression to data from 1408 households living in the proximity of forests included in Liberia’s 2019 national household forest survey to estimate the effect of forest sector participation on food security (in terms of reduction in the number of months households reportedly had insufficient food). Results show that forest-sector participation reduced the number of months households had insufficient food by 84% (about 2.7 months). Heterogeneity analyses show that NTFPs affected food security by 80% (about 2.5 months) compared to timber and wood products, which had a 66% effect size (about 2.1 months) on average. Our results provide new, national-scale evidence on the role of forests in enhancing food security in Liberia and suggest the importance of forest sector participation for food security and achieving SDG 2 more generally.

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参与林业部门对利比里亚农村地区粮食安全的影响

在中低收入国家（LMICs），森林可以帮助农村家庭应对气候变化带来的粮食不安全挑战，同时还能固碳并推进其他可持续发展目标的实现。因此，参与林业部门有助于实现可持续发展目标 (SDGs)，尤其是在森林资源丰富但经济贫困的中低收入国家地区实现饥饿和粮食安全目标 (SDG2)。然而，在这种情况下，林业部门的参与对粮食安全影响的分析仍然有限。在此，我们估算了在西非森林覆盖率最高的国家利比里亚，参与以森林为基础的活动（如木材和非木材森林产品（NTFP）的采集和加工）对家庭粮食安全的影响。我们对利比里亚 2019 年全国家庭森林调查中包含的 1408 个生活在森林附近的家庭的数据进行了内生切换泊松回归，以估算森林部门参与对粮食安全的影响（即据报道家庭粮食不足月数的减少）。结果显示，森林部门的参与使家庭粮食不足的月数减少了 84%（约 2.7 个月）。异质性分析表明，与木材和木制品相比，非木材类植物对粮食安全的影响达 80%（约 2.5 个月），而木材和木制品的影响平均为 66%（约 2.1 个月）。我们的研究结果为森林在提高利比里亚粮食安全方面的作用提供了新的、全国范围的证据，并表明林业部门的参与对于粮食安全和更广泛地实现可持续发展目标 2 具有重要意义。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

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14.00

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6.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.