Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being

Wells, Geoff J., Ryan, Casey M., Das, Anamika, Attiwilli, Suman, Poudyal, Mahesh, Lele, Sharachchandra, Schreckenberg, Kate, Robinson, Brian E., Keane, Aidan, Homewood, Katherine M., and others. (2024) Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being. One Earth, 7 (2). pp. 311-324. ISSN 2590-3330. E-ISSN 2590-3322. (doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001) (KAR id:104667)

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Abstract

Local access to “wild,” common-pool terrestrial and aquatic resources is being diminished by global resource demand and large-scale conservation interventions. Many theories suggest the well-being of wild harvesters can be supported through transitions to other livelihoods, improved infrastructure, and market access. However, new theories argue that such benefits may not always occur because they are context dependent and vary across dimensions of well-being. We test these theories by comparing how wild harvesting and other livelihoods have been associated with food security and life satisfaction in different contexts across ∼10,800 households in the tropics. Wild harvests coincided with high well-being in remote, asset-poor, and less-transformed landscapes. Yet, overall, well-being increased with electrical infrastructure, proximity to cities, and household capitals. This provides large-scale confirmation of the context dependence of nature’s contributions to people, and suggests a need to maintain local wild resource access while investing in equitable access to infrastructure, markets, and skills.

Item Type:	Article
DOI/Identification number:	10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001
Uncontrolled keywords:	nature’s contributions to people; ecosystem services; multi-dimensional wellbeing; social-ecological systems; environmental income; conservation; international development
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation > DICE (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology)
Funders:	UK Research and Innovation (https://ror.org/001aqnf71)
Depositing User:	Mahesh Poudyal
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2024 14:30 UTC
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2024 15:07 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/104667 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Poudyal, Mahesh.

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