Forest Resources and Rural Livelihoods: The Conflict Between Timber and Non-timber Forest Products in the Congo Basin

Ndoye, O.; Tieguhong, Julius Chupezi

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“…In the Congo Basin, timber exploitation is placing growing pressure on local biodiversity, with potential negative repercussions on food security and livelihoods [104]. Some timber species have edible fruits and oil extracted from seeds; others host caterpillars that make up 75% of the protein eaten by the Baka during the period when caterpillars are available [105]. Examples of conflicts between multiple uses are also documented in Asia [106] and South America [107].…”

Section: Sustainable Use Of Nwfps and Threats To The Resource Basementioning

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“…In cases of conflict over the use of multipurpose species, which supply both timber and food products, forest management plans should be negotiated with timber concessions and adapted to consider the interests of both local communities and timber companies [105]. Such an approach should be based on a sound cost-benefit analysis that takes into account livelihoods and the food and nutritional benefits of forest foods in the diets of the local community.…”

Section: Adapting Management Of Forests and Trees To Account For Forementioning

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The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

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Abstract:With the growing demands from a population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it is unclear how our current global food system will meet future food needs. Ensuring that all people have access to adequate and nutritious food produced in an environmentally and socio-culturally sustainable manner is one of the greatest challenges of our time. -Sustainable diets‖ have been proposed as a multidimensional framework to address the need for nutritious and adequate food in the context of the many challenges facing the world today: reducing poverty and hunger, improving environmental health, enhancing human well-being and health, and strengthening local food networks, sustainable livelihoods and cultural heritage. This paper examines the contribution of forests and trees to sustainable diets, covering among others, nutritional, cultural, environmental and provisioning aspects. The literature reviewed highlight major opportunities to strengthen the contribution of forest and tree foods to sustainable diets. However, several constraints need to be removed. They relate to: cultural aspects, sustainable use of non-wood forest products, organization of forest food provisioning, limited knowledge of forest food composition, challenges in adapting management of forests and trees to account for forest foods, and in integrating forest biodiversity into complex landscapes managed for multiple benefits. Finally, the paper identifies research OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2013, 5 4798 gaps and makes recommendations to enhance the contribution of forest foods to sustainable diets through increased awareness and better integration of information and knowledge on nutritious forest foods into national nutrition strategies and programs.

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Section: Adapting Management Of Forests and Trees To Account For Forementioning

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The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

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“…The importance of forest resources for rural livelihoods has increasingly been recognized during the last three decades (Djoudi et al 2015;Ndoye and Tieguhong 2004;Shackleton and Shackleton 2004;Shackleton et al 2007;Vedeld et al 2007;Wunder 2001). Forests are important for crops (Verchot et al 2007;Garrity et al 2010); they provide food, fuel, fodder and facilitate income generation.…”

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Landscape diversity and associated coping strategies during food shortage periods: evidence from the Sudano-Sahelian region of Burkina Faso

2016

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The importance of forest resources for rural communities' livelihoods has increasingly been recognized over the last three decades. Forests provide food, generate incomes, provide supporting (nutrient cycling, pollination), and regulating (climate, diseases, water regulation and purification) services for agriculture, in addition to their aesthetic, cultural and spiritual role. However, most of the studies on forest resource use do not focus on the role of landscape organization in addressing the impact of climate variability and the risk of food insecurity. This study aims to examine the contribution of woodlands and trees towards decreasing the risk of food insecurity and the importance of landscape structure and composition in coping with food shortages. It took place in two villages in Burkina Faso, on both ends of the woodlands and tree-cover spectrum. We demonstrate that in both landscapes, ecosystem goods, such as shea nuts and fuelwood, represent a safety net for households during food shortage periods. We demonstrate that households shape their adaptive strategies differently depending on the resources available and the structure of the landscape. People living in a landscape with a savannah matrix (Sorobouly) rely on fuelwood trade to purchase cereals, while those living in a landscape with a parkland matrix (Kalembouly) rely on shea nuts. Agricultural, environmental and climate change policies that reinforce the rights of the most vulnerable to access key resources provided by these landscapes and development programs which assure their sustainable use will simultaneously enhance food security and increase their adaptive capacity in the face of climate change and variability.

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“…One feature of NWFP is that they are often collected and traded by women, and so help to increase their income and livelihood status. For example, in the humid forest zone of Cameroon, an estimated 94% of the traders of NWFPs are women (Ndoye & Tieguhong, 2004). However, while women tend to dominate the collection and trade of many NWFP, men are more involved in the harvest of higher-value commodities such as rattans, bushmeat and medicinal plants (Hoare, 2007).…”

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The Economic Value of Congo Basin Protected Areas Goods and Services

Hugues¹

2011

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This paper describes the economic value of Protected Areas (PA) in the Congo Basin. It should be noted that the focus is on forest ecosystem values more generally, rather than PA values per se. This is because little or no specific information exists on the value of PAs in the sub-region, whereas data are available which look at the economic benefits associated with natural forests. In effect, the values referred to below therefore indicate the economic benefits that are generated from the conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity and ecosystems in the Congo Basin -to which ends which PAs provide an important conservation mechanism. The total economic value (TEV) is applied here as framework used to categorise ecosystem values. Data are coming from the existing literature in order to come up with broad estimates of the economic value of Congo Basin PAs. The main findings of this research estimate rely on different source data and calculation methods, represent a mixture of actual and potential values, and only consider key goods and services, it should be noted that the figures cannot be summed to give a single figure for the total economic value of Congo Basin PAs. As final results, the TEV is around US$ 603,468,014,907 with US$ 13,884,954 for direct use value; US$ 589,532,157,606 for indirect use value and US$ 50,903,301 for option, existence and bequest value. Henceforth, to maintain the sustainability of Congo basin, there is a need to provide adequate financing for protected areas. While precise figures are difficult to obtain, there is unquestionably a high economic and development value to protected area conservation. In many cases this value far exceeds those arising from alternative-and less sustainable-land and resource use options.

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Forest Resources and Rural Livelihoods: The Conflict Between Timber and Non-timber Forest Products in the Congo Basin

Cited by 82 publications

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The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

The Contribution of Forests and Trees to Sustainable Diets

Landscape diversity and associated coping strategies during food shortage periods: evidence from the Sudano-Sahelian region of Burkina Faso

The Economic Value of Congo Basin Protected Areas Goods and Services

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