Bouncing Back : Forests, Trees, and Resilient Households

Dewees, Peter

PROFOR, Washington, DC

关键词: ADAPTATION STRATEGIES;    AFFORESTATION;    AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT;    AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS;    AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION;   

RP-ID  :  80785

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper examines some of the conceptssurrounding the idea that forests and trees can contributeto making households more resilient to food insecurity. Thepaper begins with a discussion of the widely accepteddefinitions of food security, and the implications for ourunderstanding of the role of forests and trees incontributing to food security. Authors discuss the originsof the idea of resilience, adaptability, and transformationas responses to food insecurity, and the conditions thatincrease the capacity of households to become resilient. Thesecond part of the paper looks at some of the empiricalevidence about the role of forests and trees as householdsafety nets, and examines some of the issues around thereliance on non-timber forest products (particularlywood-fuel) to produce income. The paper closes with adiscussion of evolving perspectives about landscapeapproaches, how these can contribute to building householdresilience to food insecurity, and some of the policies thatcan support this goal.