Wells, Geoff J;
Ryan, Casey M;
Das, Anamika;
Attiwilli, Suman;
Poudyal, Mahesh;
Lele, Sharachchandra;
Schreckenberg, Kate;
... Daw, Tim M; + view all
(2023)
Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being.
One Earth
10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001.
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Abstract
Summary 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.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184704 |
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