Global problems of biodiversity and food security

Fedotova, Gilyan V.; Сотникова, Л. Ф.; Orlova, E R; Baranova, A. F.; Goncharova, A. V.

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/677/3/032010

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“…There is increasing global awareness of the critical need to consider food security and biodiversity together (Fedotova et al 2021) through context-specific strategies (Delzeit et al 2017).…”

Section: Sustainable Agriculture and Ridge-to-reef Food Systems In Au...mentioning

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Agricultural Biodiversity and Coastal Food Systems: A Socio-ecological and Trans-ecosystem Case Study in Aurora Province, Philippines

Alejos¹,

Pajaro²,

Raquino³

et al. 2021

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This paper presents a ridge-to-reef case study on Philippine biodiversity conservation that focused on reducing agricultural chemicals as a contribution to development goals of optimized food security, improving water quality, and mitigating maternal malnutrition. Building upon an earlier study that engaged participants and jurisdictions, farmers were oriented on biodiversity considerations and engaged in ecologically-based rodent management that was extended across the province of Aurora through the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist. Subsequently, a Participatory Action Research and Learning (PARL) cycle was conducted among 14 farmer participants to support biodiversity-friendly agriculture. Developed with local farmers, a biodiversity assessment demonstrated that organic approaches in rice farms increased arthropod biodiversity and reduced the number of key insect pests. The organizational results from this biodiversity study further indicated that local government participation can promote positive change by helping overcome the disconnect between communities and sustainability research. The approach to biodiversity-friendly agriculture reached a milestone through the collaborative development of an agricultural protected area supported by drafting a municipal ordinance to encourage the continued expansion of biodiversity-friendly agriculture and reductions in the chemical load of a key Aurora watershed. This paper discusses the biodiversity analysis and organizational results within the context of trans-ecosystem knowledge management and the goal of improving chronic maternal malnutrition that has been identified in coastal settlements of Aurora.

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Section: Sustainable Agriculture and Ridge-to-reef Food Systems In Au...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural Biodiversity and Coastal Food Systems: A Socio-ecological and Trans-ecosystem Case Study in Aurora Province, Philippines

Alejos¹,

Pajaro²,

Raquino³

et al. 2021

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“…As the planet faces a rapidly shifting climate (IPBES, 2022) and a biodiversity crisis (Boyce et al, 2022), the lack of knowledge about the biodiversity of our oceans is becoming a problem that is increasingly an issue of global relevance for food security, national security, and international peacekeeping (e.g. Grabarz, 2009;Fedotova et al, 2021;Talukder et al, 2022). The ocean provides a range of globally important ecosystem services (Thurber et al, 2014) including support of fisheries, natural products for medical and industrial chemical processes, regulation of climate and ocean chemistry, providing approximately 50 percent of atmospheric oxygen (Riser and Johnson, 2008) and sequestering 37,000 Gigatonnes of carbon that includes the absorption of ~25% of the carbon aggregately released from the sum total of human activities (Canadell et al, 2007;Sabine and Feely, 2007;Gruber et al, 2019).…”

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Mind the gap: comparing exploration effort with global biodiversity patterns and climate projections to determine ocean areas with greatest exploration needs

Kennedy,

Rotjan

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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The oceans contain 1,335 million km3 of water covering 361.9 million km2 of seafloor across 71% of the planet. In the past few decades, there has been substantial effort put into mapping and exploring the ocean fueled by the advent of new technologies that more easily enable deepwater access. However, we are still far from achieving our shared goals of a well characterized and documented ocean. In 2010, Webb et al. documented the paucity of deep-sea data in general, with a specific focus on the lack of pelagic records in the Ocean Biogeographic Information System OBIS, which is the largest of the ocean biodiversity archives. While significant exploration progress has been made, the rate of change in the ocean is outstripping the rate of characterization and research. Given the limited resources available, future work needs to be prioritized to focus on areas of greatest need. Here, we investigated several lines of inquiry to determine priority areas for future exploration. We accumulated the largest database of global deep submergence dive records ever compiled and used it, plus OBIS biodiversity records, to assess the level of exploration in different ocean regions. Then, we compared these measures of exploration effort with different biogeographic province schemas and estimates of climate change velocity projections to identify the largest remaining gaps in exploration and research sampling. Given that marine science has only explored between 5 and 20% of the ocean (depending on estimates) in the last hundred and fifty years, future exploration needs to be more targeted to attempt to keep pace with the rate and impact of environmental and biodiversity change in the ocean.

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“…Solutions to food insecurity need to be sustainable in the face of multiple and interacting future threats including: climate change (Lincoln Lenderking et al, 2021;Milliken, 2017;Siegel, 2021); water insecurity (Hanjra & Qureshi, 2010;Miller et al, 2021;Young et al, 2021); changing tastes and global market shifts (Popkin et al, 2002); land grabs (Müller et al, 2021;Nally, 2015); and biodiversity loss (Fedotova et al, 2021;Tscharntke et al, 2012).…”

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The challenges of a food sovereignty perspective: an analysis of the foodways of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua

2022

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Despite its prominence within food security debates, Food Sovereignty is still a developing and contested concept. This article illustrates two of the tensions within the Food Sovereignty literature through an analysis of the foodways of the Rama indigenous group in Nicaragua. Firstly, the results show that there is considerable heterogeneity in how the Rama source their food and that, for most Rama, engagement with the market economy is critical to ensuring their own food security. This presents a further challenge to the idea that Food Sovereignty should only promote a one-size-fits-all “small-scale farming” approach to food security. Secondly, the paper shows there is considerable conflict over resources between the Rama and Pacific Nicaraguans who have encroached on their territory. This finding reinforces the view that Food Sovereignty needs to be further developed to be able to give clear direction in similar instances. This article concludes by arguing that although these tensions need to be resolved in order to boost the utility of Food Sovereignty on the ground, the concept can provide a useful theoretical arena in which to highlight the food security threats that are faced by communities like the Rama.

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Global problems of biodiversity and food security

Cited by 6 publications

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Agricultural Biodiversity and Coastal Food Systems: A Socio-ecological and Trans-ecosystem Case Study in Aurora Province, Philippines

Agricultural Biodiversity and Coastal Food Systems: A Socio-ecological and Trans-ecosystem Case Study in Aurora Province, Philippines

Mind the gap: comparing exploration effort with global biodiversity patterns and climate projections to determine ocean areas with greatest exploration needs

The challenges of a food sovereignty perspective: an analysis of the foodways of the Rama indigenous group, Nicaragua

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