What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems?
The environment’s proper functioning is essential for a better life on Earth, including maintaining, enhancing, and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services. While the environment is driven by external factors and shocks as well as interventions within the global food system, it simultaneously...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Gotor, Elisabetta Masso, Cargele |
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| description | The environment’s proper functioning is essential for a better life on Earth, including maintaining, enhancing, and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services. While the environment is driven by external factors and shocks as well as interventions within the global food system, it simultaneously drives the overall health and stability of the planet. This relationship involves complex interactions and tipping points, which foresight research needs to capture in analyzing alternative future pathways for food system transformation.
A sustainable and resilient environment requires holistic approaches, strategies, and policies to address environmental stresses and promote conservation, regeneration, and coexistence with nature. These include practices that respect ecological boundaries, reduce resource consumption and conflict, foster biodiversity, and enhance ecosystem recovery and adaptability. Foresight research is essential to help decision-makers understand synergies and trade-offs between long-term public goods benefits and short-term private costs from resource use and management.
Addressing food systems challenges — including root causes of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss — requires sustainable land and soil management, conservation efforts, and food production practices, in addition to economic viability and social inclusion. Foresight analysis can help policymakers, communities, and industries make informed decisions and prioritize and deploy effective and holistic strategies at the biodiversity-climate-society nexus. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1752272025-11-06T04:01:15Z What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? Gotor, Elisabetta Masso, Cargele environment biodiversity food systems environmental degradation resource conservation sustainability ecosystem services climate change natural resources management sustainable land use The environment’s proper functioning is essential for a better life on Earth, including maintaining, enhancing, and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services. While the environment is driven by external factors and shocks as well as interventions within the global food system, it simultaneously drives the overall health and stability of the planet. This relationship involves complex interactions and tipping points, which foresight research needs to capture in analyzing alternative future pathways for food system transformation. A sustainable and resilient environment requires holistic approaches, strategies, and policies to address environmental stresses and promote conservation, regeneration, and coexistence with nature. These include practices that respect ecological boundaries, reduce resource consumption and conflict, foster biodiversity, and enhance ecosystem recovery and adaptability. Foresight research is essential to help decision-makers understand synergies and trade-offs between long-term public goods benefits and short-term private costs from resource use and management. Addressing food systems challenges — including root causes of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss — requires sustainable land and soil management, conservation efforts, and food production practices, in addition to economic viability and social inclusion. Foresight analysis can help policymakers, communities, and industries make informed decisions and prioritize and deploy effective and holistic strategies at the biodiversity-climate-society nexus. 2025-07-21 2025-06-20T19:10:40Z 2025-06-20T19:10:40Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175227 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175019 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Gotor, Elisabetta; and Masso, Cargele. 2025. What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? In What do we know about the future of food systems? eds. Keith Wiebe and Elisabetta Gotor. Part One: What Do We Know About the Future of Food Systems Drivers and Impacts? Chapter 5, Pp. 28-33. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175227 |
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| title | What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? |
| title_full | What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? |
| title_fullStr | What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? |
| title_full_unstemmed | What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? |
| title_short | What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? |
| title_sort | what do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems |
| topic | environment biodiversity food systems environmental degradation resource conservation sustainability ecosystem services climate change natural resources management sustainable land use |
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