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| Resource type | Journal Article |
| Title(s) | A social-ecological assessment of food security and biodiversity conservation in Ethiopia |
| DOI | 10.48548/pubdata-1534 |
| Handle | 20.500.14123/1608 |
| Creator | Fischer, Joern  0000-0003-3187-8978Bergsten, Arvid 0000-0002-5796-7728Dorresteijn, Ine 0000-0001-9785-4982Hanspach, Jan 0000-0002-6638-8699Hylander, Kristoffer 0000-0002-1215-2648Jiren, Tolera Senbeto 0000-0001-5905-1142Manlosa, Aisa 0000-0001-8058-412XRodrigues, Patrícia 0000-0003-0992-7585Schultner, Jannik 0000-0002-5865-7975Senbeta, Feyera 0000-0002-6502-4797Shumi, Girma 0000-0001-7386-6815 |
| Abstract | We studied food security and biodiversity conservation from a social-ecological perspective in southwestern Ethiopia. Specialist tree, bird, and mammal species required large, undisturbed forest, supporting the notion of ‘land sparing’ for conservation. However, our findings also suggest that forest areas should be embedded within a multifunctional landscape matrix (i.e. ‘land sharing’), because farmland also supported many species and ecosystem services and was the basis of diversified livelihoods. Diversified livelihoods improved smallholder food security, while lack of access to capital assets and crop raiding by wild forest animals negatively influenced food security. Food and biodiversity governance lacked coordination and was strongly hierarchical, with relatively few stakeholders being highly powerful. Our study shows that issues of livelihoods, access to resources, governance and equity are central when resolving challenges around food security and biodiversity. A multi-facetted, social-ecological approach is better able to capture such complexity than the conventional, two-dimensional land sparing versus sharing framework. |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Agroecology; Land Sharing; Land Sparing; Resilience; Social-ecological System; Sustainability |
| Year of publication in PubData | 2024 |
| Publishing type | Parallel publication |
| Publication version | Published version |
| Date issued | 2021-07-28 |
| Creation context | Research |
| Notes | This publication was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of Leuphana University Lüneburg. |
| Published by | Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg |
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