How many people globally actually use non-timber forest products?

CM Shackleton, A de Vos - Forest Policy and Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are widely used wild, biological products harvested from
rural and urban landscapes for household subsistence, income and culture, thereby …

[HTML][HTML] Urban foraging: A ubiquitous human practice overlooked by urban planners, policy, and research

CM Shackleton, PT Hurley, AC Dahlberg, MR Emery… - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Although hardly noticed or formally recognised, urban foraging by humans probably occurs
in all urban settings around the world. We draw from research in India, South Africa …

[HTML][HTML] Where the wild things are: How urban foraging and food forests can contribute to sustainable cities in the Global North

F Oncini, S Hirth, J Mylan, CH Robinson… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2024 - Elsevier
Humanity is faced with interacting socio-environmental challenges such as securing food
while the climate changes and biodiversity declines. These global crises are partly caused …

[HTML][HTML] Urban green infrastructure for poverty alleviation: evidence synthesis and conceptual considerations

CM Shackleton - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The multiple benefits of urban green infrastructure (UGI) that support sustainable cities are
increasingly acknowledged, and yet the bulk of research over the past decade or so has …

Urban foraging of wild plants in two medium-sized South African towns: People, perceptions and practices

H Garekae, CM Shackleton - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban ecosystems provide goods and services critical to livelihood sustenance,
environmental protection and sustainability. However, the potential role of some urban …

Nontimber forest products as ecological and biocultural keystone species

CM Shackleton, T Ticktin, AB Cunningham - Ecology and Society, 2018 - JSTOR
Nontimber forests products (NTFPs) are the mainstay of rural livelihoods and local
economies the world over. As such they are of interest to a wide disciplinary range of …

[HTML][HTML] Urban wild food foraging locations: Understanding selection criteria to inform green space planning and management

A Brandner, C Schunko - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban wild food foraging is increasingly attracting attention as an activity in urban green
spaces that encourages urban residents' interaction with their natural environment …

Ecosystem provisioning services in Global South cities

CM Shackleton - Urban ecology in the global south, 2021 - Springer
All of humankind, urban and rural, rich and poor and whether living in the Global South or
the Global North rely to some degree on provisioning ecosystem services such as food …

Into the urban wild: Collection of wild urban plants for food and medicine in Kampala, Uganda

E Mollee, M Pouliot, MA McDonald - Land use policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, many people depend on natural resources for their
livelihoods. While urbanisation causes landscape changes, little is known of how this …

The socio-environmental impacts of public urban fruit trees: A Montreal case-study

J Colinas, P Bush, K Manaugh - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2019 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, worldwide interest in urban agriculture has rapidly increased
amongst residents, city administrations, businesses and researchers, and a diversity of …