Table 2 Systematic map data categories

Nature of evidence

Sources of evidence (journal types and subjects, grey literature)

Types of evidence (study design, data sources, scale of analysis)

Producers of evidence (location of primary authors/institutions)

Representativeness and coverage of evidence

Demographic characteristics

Village/community characteristics

Geographic coverage (countries, regions)

Ecological coverage (forest types, habitats)

Resources accessed or utilized (by men/women/girls/boys)

Types and nature of linkages between gender, access to forest resources and food security

Types of access employed (different tenure and regulatory frameworks)

Types of linkage to food security

Food security outcomes

Measures of food security

Measures of nutrition security

Nature of impacts identified (positive, negative, neutral) and relative proportions of each type

Policy, institutions and governance

Attention paid to underlying policy, institutional and governance issues (separated by regional, national and international scales) – no’s of studies addressing key issues