The right to food? Protected areas, access and food security

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The right to food?
Protected areas, access and food security
Terry Sunderland
Society for Ethnobiology Conference
Universi...

Context
• Recent years have seen the
development of discourse on
the contributions of forests to
dietary diversity and nut...

Forests and livelihoods: What do we know?
• One billion+ people rely on forest products
for consumption and income in some...

“We show that Indigenous Peoples manage, or have tenure rights,
over at least 38 million km2. This represents over a quart...

Source: Sunderland et al. 2013. Evidence-based conservation in the Lower Mekong.
Routledge.

Forests and food security

“There is a statistically significant positive relationship
between tree cover and dietary diversity; fruit and
vegetable ...

"If indeed forests substantially contribute to dietary
quality in some areas as the results here imply,
forest loss may re...

“This research adds to the growing body of evidence that
forests and forest-based ecosystems are associated with
dietary q...

Policy recommendations:
• “Enhance the role of forests
in environmental processes
at all scales without
compromising the r...

The right to food: Enshrined in global discourse
• 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt includes right to food
one ...

Conservation Initiative on Human Rights
”Common principles”
• Respect human rights
• Protect the environment
• Promote hum...

Arbitrary arrest of
people exerting their
customary rights is a
daily occurrence, but
the age of social media
means such i...

"One of the problems is in the way the eco-guards
are being trained. They are not being taught to
distinguish between poac...

“We must also seek to understand what the implications are for policy
and what the messages to policy makers should be. Pr...

"The likelihood of being poor was reduced in households living near multiple-use PAs (IUCN
categories V and VI, ~1/3 of al...

Moving forward?
• Protected areas are not (often) isolated, but part
of broader multi-functional landscapes
• If conservat...

“The note provides an overview of existing guidance and guidelines which could
complement existing decisions of the Conven...

Pristine wilderness??

terry.sunderland@ubc.ca
@TCHSunderland
Contribute:
New journal: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change: Forests and People...

The right to food? Protected areas, access and food security

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