Contributions of financial, social and natural capital to food security around Kanha National Park in central India

Neelakantan, Amrita; DeFries, Ruth; Sterling, Eleanor J.; Naeem, Shahid

doi:10.1007/s10113-020-01589-7

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“…The wealthier households are, the less food insecure they are. This finding agrees with previous studies (Mulwa and Visser 2020;Neelakantan et al 2020;Mutisya et al 2016;Chamberlin and Ricker-Gilbert 2016). The estimated coefficients for the variable representing formal land titles are positive and statistically significant.…”

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Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

Nnaji

Ratna

et al. 2022

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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Food security in many developing countries has been threatened by several factors such as unequal land distribution, ineffective land reform policies, inefficient agricultural value chains, and an increasing number of climate disasters. In Nigeria, these threats are exacerbated by rapid population growth and extreme weather events, which have resulted in farmer-herder conflicts in most agrarian communities. This paper examines the differential impacts of the incidence and severity of farmer-herder resource use conflicts on food insecurity of rural households in Nigeria. We employ a two-stage predictor substitution model to estimate survey data collected from 401 rural households in Nigeria. The empirical results show that both the incidence and the severity of farmer-herder conflicts significantly increase food insecurity, and the severity of these conflicts has a larger impact than their incidence. The estimates of the conditional mixed process models confirm the robustness of our results. Additional analysis reveals that the incidence and severity of farmer-herder conflicts positively and significantly affect food insecurity, measured by the number of days with limited varieties of food eaten. Our findings highlight the importance of policy interventions that address ongoing farmer-herder conflicts in affected countries like Nigeria to enhance food security from a sustainable development perspective.

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Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

Nnaji

Ratna

et al. 2022

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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“…In central India--particularly forest areas within CCAs--a large proportion of vulnerable local (largely tribal) communities continue to rely on forests for daily fuelwood and grazing cattle as well as seasonal economic opportunities (Nair et al, 2021). Notably, people in central India extensively collect tendu leaves for commercial trade, supplementing their singlecropping agrarian livelihood by converting natural capital to financial capital in local markets (Lele et al, 2015;Neelakantan et al, 2020) (Appendix S15). The changing aspirations of the younger generation as well as large spatial overlap of connectivity and human-use areas reinforce the need for incorporation of local perspectives in Finally, another crucial infrastructure development actors--adds a challenge for managers of CCAs.…”

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“…The CIL has a high density of indigenous, officially recognized “scheduled tribes” or adivasis that reside in the region (>25% of all inhabitants) (Mohindra & Labonté, 2010; Revankar, 1971). The region encompasses thousands of villages (mean population >750) and a growing number of towns that also rely on forest goods, primarily to supplement agricultural incomes (Neelakantan et al., 2020).…”

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Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape

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Neelakantan²,

Cushman

et al. 2022

Conservation Biology

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As ecological data and associated analyses become more widely available, synthesizing results for effective communication with stakeholders is essential. In the case of wildlife corridors, managers in human‐dominated landscapes need to identify both the locations of corridors and multiple stakeholders for effective oversight. We synthesized five independent studies of tiger (Panthera tigris) connectivity in central India, a global priority landscape for tiger conservation, to quantify agreement on landscape permeability for tiger movement and potential movement pathways. We used the latter analysis to identify connectivity areas on which studies agreed and stakeholders associated with these areas to determine relevant participants in corridor management. Three or more of the five studies’ resistance layers agreed in 63% of the study area. Areas in which all studies agree on resistance were of primarily low (66%, e.g., forest) and high (24%, e.g., urban) resistance. Agreement was lower in intermediate resistance areas (e.g., agriculture). Despite these differences, the studies largely agreed on areas with high levels of potential movement: >40% of high average (top 20%) current‐flow pixels were also in the top 20% of current‐flow agreement pixels (measured by low variation), indicating consensus connectivity areas (CCAs) as conservation priorities. Roughly 70% of the CCAs fell within village administrative boundaries, and 100% overlapped forest department management boundaries, suggesting that people live and use forests within these priority areas. Over 16% of total CCAs’ area was within 1 km of linear infrastructure (437 road, 170 railway, 179 transmission line, and 339 canal crossings; 105 mines within 1 km of CCAs). In 2019, 78% of forest land diversions for infrastructure and mining in Madhya Pradesh (which comprises most of the study region) took place in districts with CCAs. Acute competition for land in this landscape with globally important wildlife corridors calls for an effective comanagement strategy involving local communities, forest departments, and infrastructure planners.

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“…in protected area landscapes [7,12,44,66,70]. Our study forms a data rich case study within landscape trade-off frameworks to reach multiple goals for people and wildlife (see- [39,68]).…”

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Food security and livelihoods of post-resettlement households around Kanha National Park

2020

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Globally, conservation efforts have moved millions of people out of protected areas since the 1970s, yet quantitative studies on post-resettlement well-being remain a challenge due to poor documentation. Since 2008, the Indian forest department records demographic and financial details at the household level under standardized guidelines for resettlement. Here, we examine the food security of approximately 600 households’ post-resettlement from Kanha National Park (KNP) in central India between 2009 and 2014. We compare food security of resettled households with host community households with a total of 3519 household surveys, conducted over three seasons within one year. We measure food security using food consumption scores (FCSs), coping strategies index (CSI) and household hunger scale (HHS). Food insecurity is widespread in the landscape, with over 80% of households reporting poor or borderline FCSs year-round. Additionally, we recorded food insecurity increases in monsoon for all households regardless of resettlement status. Results indicate that resettled households are comparable to their host community neighbors in FCS and all households use mild coping strategies to combat food insecurity. While widespread, food insecurity in the KNP landscape is not acute with very few (<10) reports of severe hunger (as measured by the HHS). Almost all foods are market bought (>90%) and sometimes supplemented by gathering locally prevalent greens or from kitchen gardens (forest dependency for food was negligible). Accruing assets and diversifying incomes from non-labor avenues would alleviate food insecurity for all households. The patterns of market dependence and food security associated with diversified stable incomes around protected areas is in contrast with many studies but is likely to occur in similar human-dominated landscapes.

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Contributions of financial, social and natural capital to food security around Kanha National Park in central India

Cited by 12 publications

References 63 publications

Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape

Food security and livelihoods of post-resettlement households around Kanha National Park

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