Climatic suitability predictions for the cultivation of macadamia and walnuts in existing land-use zones and forest management regimes under climate change scenarios: addressing food security in the mid-hills of Nepal

摘要: AbstractThe consequences of climate change threaten existing agriculture systems across Nepal. Projected changes will impact diversity, leading to an increased food insecurity. Hilly areas are populated by smallholder farmers, who have practised subsistence and forestry for centuries. There is enormous potential communities produce in agricultural or forest lands that degraded sparsely covered trees. However, little known about the suitability these crops. This study explores possibility developing cultivation two high-nutrition nuts, macadamia walnut, according current distribution land-use zones, management regimes types. We mapped climatic both species at present future. show ‘optimal’ range growth increase while walnuts decrease. The most favourable be forest, a...