Humanity is faced with interacting socio-environmental challenges such as securing food
while the climate changes and biodiversity declines. These global crises are partly caused …

Urban forests play an important role for urban dwellers, providing environmental, social and
economic services. One of these benefits is the capacity of trees to provide food, an aspect …

Interest in planting urban food trees (UFTs) in public spaces is growing in popularity as a
form of urban greening and a potential food source. Currently there is minimal research on …

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed cracks in American food security, as global supply chains
seised, movement within cities and regions halted, and restaurant access diminished …

Plant foraging is an important human ecological phenomenon being studied by a number of
contemporary ethnobiologists as well as by a few social anthropologists among rural …

We assess how tree species richness and ecosystem services vary along a tropical
urbanisation gradient in a rapidly expanding mega-city (Bangkok, Thailand). We conduct …

Harvesting wild food is an important co** strategy to deal with food insecurity in farming
households across the Caribbean. The practice is tightly connected to the region's unique …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the research and literature on wild foods (ie, edible
plants that grow without human cultivation and/or animals harvested from their natural habit …

Urban greenspaces (UGS) are increasingly recognized for their potential to provide
provisioning services to residents foraging for food and other plant materials. The alignment …

Concerns about food sovereignty in western nations have increased in recent years, as
incidents of food-borne pathogens are highlighted in the popular press, and calls for locally …