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Unsiloed agroforestry research and policy: Livelihood and multifunction as chestnut (Castanea sativa) management priorities for Türkiye
Forest policy and economics, Vol.173(7), p.103474
04/2025
Abstract
In this study, we investigate variation in the priorities for the chestnut tree held by stakeholders across Türkiye in order to highlight the importance of unsiloed research and policy in the study area and beyond. We designed our study to evaluate the operating hypothesis of state agencies who manage the tree in sharp regional contrast, with the western provinces managed overwhelmingly for horticulture, and the northern provinces for silviculture. We utilized ethnobiological methodologies of plant trait preference cataloguing and freelisting to engage and analyze the priorities for chestnut trees for 96 stakeholder households across Türkiye ‘s chestnut suitable territory. We found that no household utilized the tree for one purpose only, that every household used the tree for both its fruits and its timber, and that the vast majority utilized the tree for nuts, timber and one other category of use. We explored the resulting data using saliency analysis, multiple correspondence analysis and geospatial visualization through inverse distance weighting. We found no significant effect of western or northern location on priorities. Our findings substantiate conservation and livelihood development theories which advocate for unsiloed, interdisciplinary research informed by stakeholders, and also showcase an application of agroforestry as a framework for directly amplifying the priorities of livelihood practitioners in the formulation of land use policy. Insights generated by this study support recommendations for Türkiye and beyond, including more thoroughly interdisciplinary research to perpetuate multifunctional use of trees as well as more regional and unified governmental strategies for conservation and rural livelihood viability.
•Priority for multi-function of chestnut trees predominate across Türkiye.•More than 70 % of our study population used their trees for three or more purposes.•Siloed regional management of chestnut populations is not congruent with ubiquitous priority for multi-function.•Agroforestry as landuse management strategy encodes multifunction in government policy.•An open definition of agroforestry is showcased as a framework for coherent and responsive governance.
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- Title
- Unsiloed agroforestry research and policy: Livelihood and multifunction as chestnut (Castanea sativa) management priorities for Türkiye
- Creators
- Jeffrey Wall - University of TurkuTaner Okan - Department of Forestry Economics, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University- Cerrahpaşa, 34473 Bahçeköy-Istanbul, TurkiyeCoşkun Köse - Department of Forest Biology and Wood Protection Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University- Cerrahpaşa, 34473 Bahçeköy-Istanbul, TurkiyeNesibe Köse - Department of Forest Botany, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University- Cerrahpaşa, 34473 Bahçeköy-Istanbul, TurkiyeElif Basak Aksoy - Hacettepe University
- Publication Details
- Forest policy and economics, Vol.173(7), p.103474
- Academic Unit
- Department of Horticulture
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Number of pages
- 17
- Grant note
- American Research Institute in Turkey, Philadelphia PA 8000079396 / U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program, Center for Food Security, Purdue University
- Identifiers
- 99901298408601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article