Future climate and land use changes challenge current dependencies on wild food harvesting by rural indigenous communities.

ABSTRACT: Traditional food systems support the livelihoods and well-being of rural Indigenous communities, particularly in remote, asset-poor areas. However, the diversity of wild foods is in global decline under the accelerating impacts of climate and environmental change with major but poorly understood implications for dependent communities. Here, we combine a comprehensive systematic household survey involving 400 households from 18 rural Indigenous settlements across the Republic of Sakha, a vast and climate change sensitive region in the Russian Far East, with species distribution models for 51 food species of animals, plants, and fungi to (i) profile current household dependencies on wild food harvesting; (ii) project future (2050s) changes in the regional distribution and local availability

SUBMITTER: Garcia Molinos J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11606651 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature