Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate

Abstract

Developed by the Wildlands Project in North America in the 1980s (Foreman et al., 1992) and gaining interest in the UK over the past 10 years, rewilding has captured the imagination of ecologists and the public as a persuasive methodological approach to mitigate anthropogenically driven species loss. It is generally accepted that rewilding's aims are to restore ecosystems through "a process of (re)introducing or restoring wild organisms and/or ecological processes to ecosystems

Short Communication: Utilization of wild plants in medicinal foods for maternal postpartum recovery among the Kasepuhan in rural West Java, Indonesia

“…Other ethnobotanical investigations suggest that gender is a significant variable influencing the distribution of local knowledge concerning medicinal plants (Garibay-Orijel et al 2012;Díaz-Reviriego et al 2016;Smucker and Wangui 2016;Torres-Avilez et al 2016;Alqethami et al 2017;Jones 2022). In certain regions, females are closer to the identification and medicinal uses of local flora than males (Tuler and da Silva 2014;Acosta-Naranjo et al 2021;Teixidor-Toneu et al 2021).…”

An assessment of future rewilding potential in the United Kingdom

“…This third class was very broad, supplied small quantities of livestock products alongside a range of other ecosystem services, and covered much of the United Kingdom's most marginal agricultural land, including upland grazing, sporting estates, and seminatural areas. Despite being relatively unproductive for food and sometimes used for (or at least referred to as) rewilding (Carver et al., 2021; Gordon et al., 2021), this class of land is usually actively managed for agriculture and linked to traditional or cultural landscapes that may be of great significance to local communities (as demonstrated by the opposition to the Summit to Sea rewilding scheme in Wales [Jones, 2022]). Its potential for rewilding is therefore debatable and highly context dependent.…”

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“…Gaps in alignment were found to mainly concern criteria of the human wellbeing pillar. Some case studies from the United Kingdom demonstrate how rewilding projects do not properly involve local communities, neglect land property and land user rights and cause land-holder displacement and therefore a lack of social acceptance of the approach (Wynne- Jones et al, 2018;Jones, 2022;Martin et al, 2023). In contrast, however, numerous examples across the globe show that many existing rewilding projects have a strong human dimension (Land Water Management Approaches Experts, 2023a).…”

“…In some instances, an approach may suggest it is dedicated to secure land tenure rights in general, but it fails to do so in specific projects. Reasons for this varied in practice, but some projects are situated in locations where tenure is unclear or where existing land use agreements are not accessible (see Mansourian et al, 2020;Jones, 2022;Sharma et al, 2022b).…”