Biodiversity Towards Sustainable Food Systems: Four Arguments

Jacob, Michelle Cristine Medeiros; Chaves, Viviany Moura; Rocha, Cecília

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“…These are all combined with an increasingly evident and impactful climate change scenario that is irreparably modifying some agricultural practices. The search for practices that favor and use local varieties of raw materials more suited to the climate in which they are grown, as ancient grains often are, is undoubtedly a possible risk mitigation strategy (Jacob et al , 2021). Difficulties in the use of water, finding genetic varieties created in distant countries and the lack of sufficient quantities of local or national raw materials are increasingly pushing the realities of the agrifood sector to rethink their production models and medium- to long-term strategies (Blicharska et al , 2019).…”

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“…Through the different case studies, a systems thinking perspective and a holistic viewpoint have been used to understand the relationships, roles, motivations and dynamics underlying the close but often not so understandable relationship between business and the ecosystem (Davila et al , 2021). The protection of biodiversity and its management represent a current challenge for any type of business activity, a situation that has been made even more urgent based on the dynamics of today’s world and the consequences that the current and more widespread relationship with nature is bringing (Blicharska et al , 2019; Feger and Mermet, 2022; Jacob et al , 2021) (Figure 1).…”

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“…Rockström et al (2009) state that “the rate of extinction of species is estimated to be 100 to 1,000 times more than what could be considered natural,” thus underlying the impact (among others) of the conversion of natural land into farmland as well as the introduction of new species to land environments. Biodiversity loss also affects the “operativeness” and resilience of ecosystems “since it reduces the capacity of ecosystems to regenerate or reorganize after a perturbation, while a high level of biodiversity can buffer and help revitalize the system without irreversibly tipping it into an undesirable state” (Jacob et al , 2021; Winn and Pogutz, 2013, p. 215).…”

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Biodiversity management approaches in small and innovative businesses: insights from asystems thinkingperspective

Torelli

Balluchi

2022

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Purpose Amid the current global crisis, biodiversity remains a topic that is often relegated to a few disciplines. Many issues related to the relationship between organizations and the ecosystem remain unexplored. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the characteristics of the interrelationship between these two complex and dynamic systems. Design/methodology/approach This research is conducted using a constructivist approach, with an interpretivist perspective and a case study methodology. Through this research perspective and an exploratory multiple case study (holistic), the authors assess the implications related to the concept of biodiversity and the impacts that organizational choices could have on the consideration and management of this complex concept. Findings The desire of these entrepreneurs to change their ways of doing things and try to produce in a way that respects the ecosystem and enhances natural genetic diversity, while simultaneously drawing value from it in a healthy and sustainable manner, is evident. The orientation toward a sustainable and ecologically innovative business brings the concept of profit into the background on several occasions, leading these bakery entrepreneurs to be visionary green entrepreneurs (or ecopreneurs). The desire to be sustainable and to change the ways of “business as usual” makes these companies and their entrepreneurs an example of “sustainability-as-flourishing.” Originality/value By adopting the systems thinking approach and multiple case studies, this study examines the interrelation between some innovative small companies (bakeries) and biodiversity, their motivations to actively engage in biodiversity protection and their roles in protecting agrobiodiversity as well as the natural wealth of the ecosystem.

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“…Nowadays, we have the opportunity to address several global challenges related to nutrition by diversifying diets. Some of these challenges include meeting high per capita demand for nutrient-rich foods ( 5 ), fostering resilience to climate change and to the emergence of new zoonotic outbreaks, and promoting stability in food supply within the food system ( 6 ). One of the most comprehensive reviews to date examining the role of biodiversity in sustainable development highlights that biological diversity can directly contribute to (i) increased food and nutrition security levels due to a rise in local food consumption; (ii) reduced poverty because local consumption generates a source of income for local farmers; (iii) improved health and wellbeing due to higher access to more nutritious foods; and (iv) increased ability to mitigate climate change by considering as food those species adapted to local ecosystems ( 1 ).…”

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Assessment of Biodiversity in Food Consumption Studies: A Systematic Review

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Silva²,

Teixeira³

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Front. Nutr.

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The assessment of food biodiversity has gained importance in nutrition due to the positive association between the diversity of foods consumed and the quality of diets. To date, however, we do not know systematically how food consumption studies address food biodiversity. Our objective with this paper was to characterize how food consumption studies address biodiverse foods, both in terms of (i) new methods capable of overcoming the limitations of existing methods, and (ii) indicators capable of measuring the contribution of biodiversity to nutrition. We conducted a systematic review based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA), using four databases: Web of Science, Medline/PubMed (via National Library of Medicine), Scopus, and Google Scholar. We selected papers focused on the consumption of biodiverse foods without time constraints. In addition, we assessed the methodological quality of the studies we selected. We reviewed a total of 22 studies, and summarized the methods and indicators most used. We found that some researchers used biodiversity mapping strategies based on ethnographic approaches before the dietary assessment. Regarding dietary assessment tools, retrospective direct methods were the most used by researchers. We list 23 indicators used by the authors, among them the Dietary Species Richness (DSR), used in 18% of the studies. Studies that used biodiversity mapping strategies based on ethnographic approaches before the dietary assessment portrayed the local availability of biodiverse foods more consistently, i.e., presented lists with local edible species satisfactorily identified. We believe researchers in the future can avoid many of the limitations of current methods by ensuring that teams are interprofessional. We emphasize that most of the indicators we summarized are not sensitive enough to biodiversity since they do not measure edible resources at the species level. In this sense, the DSR is promising, because it fills information gaps, especially in the case of wild or neglected species.

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“…Biodiverse foods refer to the diversity of edible resources of plants, algae, fungi, animals, and their products in a food system (FAO 2017). Food biodiversity is strategic to help us overcome nutritional gaps in current dietary patterns and support us in transitioning to more sustainable diets (Jacob et al 2021). However, we have a technical limit: Until recently, food consumption studies have addressed local culture and environmental conditions narrowly, thus providing, inaccurate data on local food biodiversity (Burlingame et al 2009).…”

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How Did We Develop a Photographic Guide of Biodiverse Food Plants to Support Food Consumption Studies?

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This short take explains how we developed a photographic guide for assessing biodiversity in food consumption studies with taxonomy accuracy. To build the guide, we followed the “Guidelines on Assessing Biodiverse Foods in Dietary Intake Surveys” of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. As far as we know, this is the first tool developed in Brazil to support dietary surveys that consider food biodiversity. As researchers, this guide may help us make local biodiverse food more visible in food studies, improving our capacity to evaluate their contribution to nutritional and cultural outcomes.

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Biodiversity Towards Sustainable Food Systems: Four Arguments

Cited by 5 publications

References 59 publications

Biodiversity management approaches in small and innovative businesses: insights from asystems thinkingperspective

Biodiversity management approaches in small and innovative businesses: insights from asystems thinkingperspective

Assessment of Biodiversity in Food Consumption Studies: A Systematic Review

How Did We Develop a Photographic Guide of Biodiverse Food Plants to Support Food Consumption Studies?

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