TY - JOUR
T1 - Hundreds of millions of people in the tropics need both wild harvests and other forms of economic development for their well-being
AU - Wells, Geoff J.
AU - Ryan, Casey M.
AU - Das, Anamika
AU - Attiwilli, Suman
AU - Poudyal, Mahesh
AU - Lele, Sharachchandra
AU - Schreckenberg, Kate
AU - Robinson, Brian E.
AU - Keane, Aidan
AU - Homewood, Katherine M.
AU - Jones, Julia P.G.
AU - Torres-Vitolas, Carlos A.
AU - Fisher, Janet A.
AU - Ahmad, Sate
AU - Mulligan, Mark
AU - Dawson, Terence P.
AU - Adams, Helen
AU - Setty, R. Siddappa
AU - Daw, Tim M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the hundreds of researchers, enumerators, and support staff, and thousands of respondents, who generated the original data used in this analysis. Without the commitment and tenacity of such people, our ability to understand and pursue a sustainable world would be greatly diminished. We are also grateful to the CIFOR Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) for the public provision of their global dataset, which greatly enhanced the analytical power of this analysis. We also give thanks to the research assistants and administrative staff who provided support to the wider Nature4SDGs project, in particular Parthipan S. Franziska Kraft, and Pratik Mishra. Funded through the Towards a Sustainable Earth (TaSE) program (grant no. NE/S012850/1) by the UK Research & Innovation Councils, the Department of Biotechnology, India, and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, Formas. Additional support was also provided by the European Union (ERC, InSiTe-LandGov, grant no. 101024588). The views expressed herein are those of the creators and do not necessarily represent those of the funder or their boards of governors. We use the CRediT model to recognize author contributions, with first and last author emphasis in paper's authorship order. Conceptualization, all authors; methodology, G.J.W. T.M.D. A.D. S.A. M.P. S.L. C.M.R. K.S. B.E.R. and A.K.; software, G.J.W. A.D. S.A. and M.P.; validation, all authors; formal analysis, G.J.W.; data curation, all authors; writing, all authors; visualization, G.J.W. and C.M.R.; supervision, T.M.D. M.P. S.L. and K.S.; project administration, T.M.D. M.P. S.L. and K.S.; funding acquisition, T.M.D. M.P. S.L. C.M.R. K.S. K.M.H. J.P.G.J. J.A.F. M.M. T.P.D. H.A. and R.S.S. The authors declare no competing interests.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank the hundreds of researchers, enumerators, and support staff, and thousands of respondents, who generated the original data used in this analysis. Without the commitment and tenacity of such people, our ability to understand and pursue a sustainable world would be greatly diminished. We are also grateful to the CIFOR Poverty and Environment Network (PEN) for the public provision of their global dataset, which greatly enhanced the analytical power of this analysis. We also give thanks to the research assistants and administrative staff who provided support to the wider Nature4SDGs project, in particular Parthipan S., Franziska Kraft, and Pratik Mishra. Funded through the Towards a Sustainable Earth (TaSE) program (grant no. NE/S012850/1 ) by the UK Research & Innovation Councils , the Department of Biotechnology , India, and the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development , Formas. Additional support was also provided by the European Union (ERC, InSiTe-LandGov, grant no. 101024588 ). The views expressed herein are those of the creators and do not necessarily represent those of the funder or their boards of governors.
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PY - 2024/2/16
Y1 - 2024/2/16
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - conservation
KW - ecosystem services
KW - environmental income
KW - international development
KW - multi-dimensional wellbeing
KW - nature's contributions to people
KW - social-ecological systems
U2 - 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001
DO - 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85182660149
SN - 2590-3330
VL - 7
SP - 311
EP - 324
JO - One Earth
JF - One Earth
IS - 2
ER -