The alleviation of global poverty is a major objective of the 2030 UN Sustainable
Development Goals (notably SDG1 “to end poverty in all its forms everywhere”). Many rural …

Achieving food and nutrition security for the world's population while at the same time
reversing and minimizing damage to the natural environment is a grand societal challenge …

This paper follows the transition from ethnobotany to a deeper scientific understanding of the
food and medicinal properties of African agroforestry tree products as inputs into the start of …

Abstract Many sub-Saharan African countries implementing agricultural input subsidies
programmes (AISP) concentrate on fertilizers and staple food crops which may have little or …

Strategies to improve food and nutrition security continue to promote increasing food via
agricultural intensification. Little (if any) consideration is given to the role of natural …

Although the importance of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) is increasingly recognised
across the globe, their potential is not yet fully realised. Their often valuable nutritional …

Malnutrition linked to poor quality diets affects at least 2 billion people. Forests, as well as
agricultural systems linked to trees, are key sources of dietary diversity in rural settings. In …

Climate change threatens smallholder agriculture and food security in the Global South.
While cropland expansion is often used to counter adverse climate effects despite ecological …

Wild tree resources are known to play an important role in local stakeholders' livelihoods
particularly in the food and nutrition security of people living in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa …

Recent research has highlighted the contributions of forests and tree-based systems to both
dietary diversity and nutrition as well as agricultural production in the form of tree-based …