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Forests, trees and landscapes for food security and nutrition: a global assessment report [1]

About one in nine people globally still suffer from hunger with the majority of the hungry living in Africa and Asia. The world's forests have great potential to improve their nutrition and ensure their livelihoods. In fact, forests and forestry are essential to achieve food security as the limits of boosting agricultural production are becoming increasingly clear. That's according to the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date on the relationship among forests, food and nutrition launched in New York at a side event of the United Nations Forum on Forests. The new report released by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), the world's largest network of forest scientists, also underlines the need for the most vulnerable groups of society to have secure access to forest foods. More than 60 renowned scientists from around the world collaborated on the peer-reviewed publication "Forests, Trees and Landscapes for Food Security and Nutrition. A Global Assessment Report", which was coordinated by IUFRO on behalf of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF).

Publication Date: 
06/05/2015
Bhaskar Vira [2], Christoph Wildburger [3], Stephanie Mansourian [4]
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) [5]
Tags:
Forests [6], Trees [7], Food Security [8], Nutrition [9], India [10], Global [11], Poverty [12], Malnutrition [13], Agriculture [14], Land Tenure [15], Ecosystem Services [16], Shifting Cultivation [17]
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