Reinterpreting how forests support people's dietary quality in low-income countries

Project Information

FORESTDIET

Grant agreement ID: 853222

DOI

10.3030/853222

Project closed

EC signature date 9 December 2019

Start date 1 February 2020

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 447 389,00

EU contribution

€ 1 447 389,00

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Do Trees on Farms Improve Household Well-Being? Evidence From National Panel Data in Uganda

Author(s): Daniel C. Miller, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora, Laura V. Rasmussen, Alberto Zezza
Published in: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Issue 3, 2020, ISSN 2624-893X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00101

What are the links between tree‐based farming and dietary quality for rural households? A review of emerging evidence in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Author(s): Emilie C. Vansant; Kai Mausch; Amy Ickowitz; Stepha McMullin; Alice Karanja; Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: People and Nature, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 2575-8314
Publisher: British Ecological Society
DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10306

Food environment change on wild food consumption in rural Tanzania

Author(s): Rasmus Skov Olesen, Bronwen Powell, Charles Joseph Kilawe, Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: Food Security, 2024, ISSN 1876-4517
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-024-01469-6

Forests support people’s food and nutrition security through multiple pathways in low- and middle-income countries

Author(s): Rasmus Skov Olesen; Charlotte M. Hall; Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: One Earth, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 1342-1353, ISSN 2590-3330
Publisher: CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.11.005

Multipurpose trees on farms can improve nutrition in Malawi

Author(s): Emilie Vansant, Charlotte Hall, Bowy den Braber, Judith Kamoto, Matthias Geck, Florian Reiner, Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: One Earth, Issue 8, 2025, Page(s) 101165, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.12.001

Wild foods contribute to women’s higher dietary diversity in India

Author(s): Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, Nathalie J. Lambrecht, Bowy den Braber, Nirali Akanchha, Dhanapal Govindarajulu, Andrew D. Jones, Ashwini Chhatre, Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: Nature Food, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 476-482, ISSN 2662-1355
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s43016-023-00766-1

The importance of different forest management systems for people’s dietary quality in Tanzania

Author(s): R. S. Olesen, F. Reiner, B. den Braber, C. Hall, C. J. Kilawe, J. Kinabo, J. Msuya, L. V. Rasmussen
Published in: Landscape Ecology, Issue 39, 2024, ISSN 1572-9761
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-024-01961-6

A framework for analysing contextual factors shaping forest-poverty dynamics

Author(s): Johan A. Oldekop Monica Gabay David Humphreys Judith F.M. Kamoto Doris N. Mutta Conghe Song Joleen Timko Laura Vang Rasmussen Dietmar Stoiani
Published in: Forest Policy and Economics, Issue 132, 2021, ISSN 1389-9341
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102591

Moringa oleifera as a potential avenue to improve food security in rural Malawi

Author(s): Anika Mette Caspersen, Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: Trees, Forests and People, Issue 18, 2025, Page(s) 100667, ISSN 2666-7193
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100667

Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi

Author(s): Charlotte Mackenzie Hall, Bowy Den Braber, Emilie Vansant, Johan A. Oldekop, Upasak Das, David Fielding, Judith F. M. Kamoto, Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: Conservation Letters, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1755-263X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/conl.13061

Even low levels of tree cover improve dietary quality in West Africa

Author(s): Bowy den Braber, Charlotte Hall, Martin Brandt, Florian Reiner, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: OXFORD
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae067

Deforestation reduces fruit and vegetable consumption in rural Tanzania

Author(s): Charlotte M. Hall, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Bronwen Powell, Cecilie Dyngeland, Suhyun Jung, Rasmus Skov Olesen
Published in: PNAS, Issue 119, 2022, Page(s) e2112063119, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2112063119

Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi

Author(s): Emilie Vansant, Bowy den Braber, Charlotte Hall, Judith Kamoto, Florian Reiner, Johan Oldekop, Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: Nature Food, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 661-666, ISSN 2662-1355
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01028-4

Rethinking the approach of a global shift toward plant-based diets

Author(s): Laura Vang Rasmussen; Charlotte Hall; Emilie C. Vansant; Bowy den Braber; Rasmus Skov Olesen
Published in: One Earth, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 1201-1204, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.08.018

Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world

Author(s): Johan A. Oldekop, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Arun Agrawal, Anthony J. Bebbington, Patrick Meyfroidt, David N. Bengston, Allen Blackman, Stephen Brooks, Iain Davidson-Hunt, Penny Davies, Stanley C. Dinsi, Lorenza B. Fontana, Tatiana Gumucio, Chetan Kumar, Kundan Kumar, Dominic Moran, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Robert Nasi, Margareta Nilsson, Miguel A. Pinedo-Vasquez, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, William J. Sutherlan
Published in: Nature Plants, Issue 6/12, 2020, Page(s) 1400-1407, ISSN 2055-0278
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-00814-9

An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

Author(s): Martin Brandt, Compton J. Tucker, Ankit Kariryaa, Kjeld Rasmussen, Christin Abel, Jennifer Small, Jerome Chave, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Pierre Hiernaux, Abdoul Aziz Diouf, Laurent Kergoat, Ole Mertz, Christian Igel, Fabian Gieseke, Johannes Schöning, Sizhuo Li, Katherine Melocik, Jesse Meyer, Scott Sinno, Eric Romero, Erin Glennie, Amandine Montagu, Morgane Dendoncker, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature, Issue 587/7832, 2020, Page(s) 78-82, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2824-5

The importance of forest foods for diet quality:A case study from Sangthong District, Laos

Author(s): Marie Norddal Jendresen; Laura Vang Rasmussen
Published in: Trees, Forests and People, Issue 7, 2022, ISSN 2666-7193
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2021.100166

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture

Author(s): Laura Vang Rasmussen, Ingo Grass, Zia Mehrabi, Olivia M. Smith, Rachel Bezner-Kerr, Jennifer Blesh, Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Marney E. Isaac, Christina M. Kennedy, Hannah Wittman, Péter Batáry, Damayanti Buchori, Rolando Cerda, Julián Chará, David W. Crowder, Kevin Darras, Kathryn DeMaster, Karina Garcia, Manuel Gómez, David Gonthier, Purnama Hidayat, Juliana Hipólito, Mark Hirons, Lesli H
Published in: Science, Issue 384, 2024, Page(s) 87-93, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adj1914

Tree plantations and forest regrowth are linked to poverty reduction in Africa

Author(s): Bowy den Braber, Charlotte M. Hall, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, Matthew E. Fagan, Laura Vang Rasmusssen
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01845-2

Mapping every adult baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) across the Sahel and relationships to rural livelihoods

Author(s): Ke Huang, Martin Brandt, Pierre Hiernaux, Compton J. Tucker, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Florian Reiner, Sizhuo Li, Ankit Kariryaa, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Bowy den Braber, Jennifer Small, Scott Sino, Rasmus Fensholt
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1632-1640, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02483-9

Forest regrowth improves people’s dietary quality in Nigeria

Author(s): Laura Vang Rasmussen, Bowy den Braber, Charlotte M. Hall, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, Matthew E. Fagan, Terry Sunderland
Published in: npj Sustainable Agriculture, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2731-9202
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/s44264-023-00003-z

Socio-economic and environmental trade-offs in Amazonian protected areas and Indigenous territories revealed by assessing competing land uses

Author(s): Bowy den Braber, Johan A. Oldekop, Katie Devenish, Javier Godar, Christoph Nolte, Marina Schmoeller, Karl L. Evans
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1482-1492, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02458-w

Against the odds: Network and institutional pathways enabling agricultural diversification

Author(s): Jennifer Blesh; Zia Mehrabi; Hannah Wittman; Rachel Bezner Kerr; Dana James; Sidney Madsen; Olivia M. Smith; Sieglinde Snapp; Anne Elise Stratton; Mohamed Bakarr; Abram J. Bicksler; Ryan Galt; Lucas A. Garibaldi; Barbara Gemmill-Herren; Ingo Grass; Marney E. Isaac; Innocensia John; Sarah K. Jones; Christina M. Kennedy; Susanna Klassen; Christian Levers; Laura Vang Rasmussen; Claire Kremen
Published in: One Earth, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.03.004

Combined innovations in public policy, the private sector and culture can drive sustainability transitions in food systems

Author(s): Emily Moberg, Edward H. Allison, Heather K. Harl, Tressa Arbow, Maya Almaraz, Jane Dixon, Courtney Scarborough, Taryn Skinner, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Andrew Salter, Xin Gen Lei, Benjamin S. Halpern
Published in: Nature Food, Issue 2/4, 2021, Page(s) 282-290, ISSN 2662-1355
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43016-021-00261-5

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Forests support people's food and nutrition security through multiple pathways in low- and middle-income countries

Author(s): Rasmus Skov Olesen
Published in: Forests support people's food and nutrition security through multiple pathways in low- and middle-income countries, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7396451