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Contribution of Forest Ecosystem Services Toward Food Security and Nutrition

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Definition

Forest ecosystem services can be explained in three interrelated frameworks i.e. (i) Natural Resource Accounting framework (NRA) and/or Non-timber Forest Products framework, which entail direct use benefits, indirect use benefits and intermediate use services, (ii) Ecosystem Services (ES) which comprises ecosystem processes (supporting services) and ecosystem services (provisioning services, regulating services and cultural services), and (iii) Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) (Dlamini and Samboko 2017).

The working definition of food security for this chapter was adopted from the World Food Summit of 1996. The World Food Summit definition states that: “Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life” (World Food Summit 1996).

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This chapter discusses how forest ecosystem services (FES) can contribute...

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Appendix 1: A Framework Depicting the Direct and Indirect Roles of Forests and Tree-Based Production Systems in Food Provision. Source: Poppy et al. (2014)

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Appendix 2: Framework of Drivers Directly and Indirectly Impacting on Forests and Tree-Based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition. Source: Vira et al. (2015)

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Appendix 3: Major Drivers Affecting Forests and Tree-Based Systems for Food Security and Nutrition. Source: Vira et al. (2015)

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Dlamini, C.S. (2019). Contribution of Forest Ecosystem Services Toward Food Security and Nutrition. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_67-1

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