Food & diets
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Test your knowledge on forests and food
From beetles and Brazil nuts, to pollinators and pest control, to wood fuel and wild fruits: forests and trees contribute…
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‘Forests are well and truly on the global food security agenda’
The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted last month by the UN General Assembly, include goals on ending hunger, promoting good nutrition…
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A pod of gold
The African locust bean grows across the Sudan and Sahel, from Senegal to Burkina Faso to Uganda. This food tree…
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Forests and food: Get your facts straight!
Forestry research is complicated. So is nutrition. When people from these two fields start talking, as they do more and…
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Grubs in tubs: Cameroon’s larvae love just got so much better
Palm weevil grubs are, to many eyes, the sort of creature you would stamp on if you saw it wriggling…
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Wild food means good food: CIFOR study
In Tanzania, women supplement their families’ diets by collecting foods that grow wild near their homes. They gather edible species…
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Monty Python and tropical forests. Really?
In your best John Cleese voice: “All right… all right… but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and…
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Feed the world: New global report highlights forests’ role
BOGOR, Indonesia – Forests and trees must be considered essential in global food security and dietary diversity, according to a…
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Health is in the dish: bush meat or tinned meat?
LIMA, Peru—In the rural border areas where Colombia, Peru and Brazil converge, bushmeat provides nutrition and a strong connection with…
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In hunt for resources, Congo forest communities feel the squeeze, early research shows
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon—The narrative used to be straightforward: Rural communities in tropical countries battled logging companies in a zero-sum competition for…
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Where the wild vegetables are: Moroccan food from the forest
Winter has arrived here in Morocco. From December to March, there is a lot of rain (more than the rest…
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Link between wildlife, human nutrition is food for thought for development in Africa
BOGOR, Indonesia—A new study has found for the first time a link between the availability of wild meat and human…
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‘Boom’ and gloom: Forest-based wildlife feel brunt of Asia’s appetite for meat, medicine
BOGOR, Indonesia—It’s one of the dark sides of the Asian economic boom. Growing demand for wild meat and traditional medicine…
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Destiny in density: Afro-Colombian women struggle to sustain landscapes, livelihoods
The Colombian Pacific region is a rich and complex landscape—ecologically, economically, politically and culturally. Rapid and often controversial changes in…
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As climate change and poor habits parch Central Asia, can policy changes help?
BOGOR, Indonesia — An approach that looks at both environmental and human elements to combat landscape degradation could help make…
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