Food tree species selection for nutrition‐sensitive forest landscape restoration in Burkina Faso

作者：Barbara Vinceti, Tobias Fremout, Céline Termote, Diego Fallas Conejo, Evert Thomas, Carl Lachat, Laéticia Céline Toe, Adjima Thiombiano, Issouf Zerbo, Djingdia Lompo, Lassina Sanou, Charles Parkouda, Alain Hien, Oumarou Ouédraogo, Hermann Ouoba · 发表于：Plants People Planet · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1002/ppp3.10304 · 被引用次数：17 · 研究领域：African Botany and Ecology Studies、Agriculture and Rural Development Research、Urban Agriculture and Sustainability

Societal Impact Statement Modern food systems push agriculture to focus on a small number of commercial crops, while there is a very large diversity of untapped edible plants that could be used to address food security and nutrition. Poor and monotonous diets are closely linked to the complex burden of multiple forms of malnutrition and dietary risk. In some contexts, such as West Africa, micronutrient deficiency risks are particularly pronounced. Hence, there is an urgent need to provide people with healthy diets supported by sustainable food systems. Within this context, using nutrition‐sensitive forest landscape restoration to combat environmental degradation could contribute towards ensuring the year‐round availability of nutritious tree‐based food. Summary Diverse diets are important to deliver adequate amounts of the nutrients essential to human health. The consumption of a diversity of food groups is challenging in sub‐Saharan Africa. Trees play an important role in the direct provision of nutritious food items. Forest landscape restoration presents an opportunity to reverse the loss of useful trees, due to degradation, and increase representation of food tree species in the landscape. Here we focused on characterizing the contributions that different food products from trees can make to improving diet diversity in Burkina Faso. A scoring system was developed, based on seasonal availability of edible products and food groups covered, and was integrated into a freely av...