Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture
Production ecology and conservation biology have long focused on providing the knowledge base for intensive food production and biodiversity conservation, respectively. With increasing global food insecurity and continuing biodiversity decline, we show that the largely separate development of these...
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| author | Brussaard, Lijbert Caron, P. Campbell, Bruce M. Lipper, Leslie Mainka, S Rabbinge, Rudy Babin, D. Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet |
| author_browse | Babin, D. Brussaard, Lijbert Campbell, Bruce M. Caron, P. Lipper, Leslie Mainka, S Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet Rabbinge, Rudy |
| author_facet | Brussaard, Lijbert Caron, P. Campbell, Bruce M. Lipper, Leslie Mainka, S Rabbinge, Rudy Babin, D. Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet |
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| description | Production ecology and conservation biology have long focused on providing the knowledge base for intensive food production and biodiversity conservation, respectively. With increasing global food insecurity and continuing biodiversity decline, we show that the largely separate development of these fields is counterproductive. Scenario analyses suggest that feeding the world is possible without further encroachment of agriculture into natural ecosystems. Without ignoring the necessary demographic, socio-economic, institutional and governance requirements, we make the case for a science that develops the best ecological means to produce food in a way that has substantially less negative effects on biodiversity and associated ecosystem services and, indeed, should be able to contribute to their persistence and enhancement. Recent developments in trait-based ecology should soon make it possible to adapt and (re-)design agroecosystems to meet both goals of biodiversity conservation and food security. However, there are real tensions between, on the one hand, the opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation (for direct use and for conversion to agriculture) and on the other hand, the ecosystem service values and option values associated with biodiversity. We elaborate the management of plant genetic resources as a metaphor of the tensions between such values of biodiversity and ecosystem services in general. We conclude that significant changes in policies, institutions and practices are necessary to make advances in ecology work for reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security. |
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| spelling | CGSpace333692024-05-01T08:17:45Z Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture Brussaard, Lijbert Caron, P. Campbell, Bruce M. Lipper, Leslie Mainka, S Rabbinge, Rudy Babin, D. Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet ecology biodiversity agroecosystems food security analysis research Production ecology and conservation biology have long focused on providing the knowledge base for intensive food production and biodiversity conservation, respectively. With increasing global food insecurity and continuing biodiversity decline, we show that the largely separate development of these fields is counterproductive. Scenario analyses suggest that feeding the world is possible without further encroachment of agriculture into natural ecosystems. Without ignoring the necessary demographic, socio-economic, institutional and governance requirements, we make the case for a science that develops the best ecological means to produce food in a way that has substantially less negative effects on biodiversity and associated ecosystem services and, indeed, should be able to contribute to their persistence and enhancement. Recent developments in trait-based ecology should soon make it possible to adapt and (re-)design agroecosystems to meet both goals of biodiversity conservation and food security. However, there are real tensions between, on the one hand, the opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation (for direct use and for conversion to agriculture) and on the other hand, the ecosystem service values and option values associated with biodiversity. We elaborate the management of plant genetic resources as a metaphor of the tensions between such values of biodiversity and ecosystem services in general. We conclude that significant changes in policies, institutions and practices are necessary to make advances in ecology work for reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security. 2010-05 2013-07-31T11:48:07Z 2013-07-31T11:48:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/33369 en Limited Access Elsevier Brussaard L, Caron P, Campbell BM, Lipper L, Mainka S, Rabbinge R, Babin D, Pulleman M. 2010. Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2: 34–42. |
| spellingShingle | ecology biodiversity agroecosystems food security analysis research Brussaard, Lijbert Caron, P. Campbell, Bruce M. Lipper, Leslie Mainka, S Rabbinge, Rudy Babin, D. Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture |
| title | Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture |
| title_full | Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture |
| title_short | Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture |
| title_sort | reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security scientific challenges for a new agriculture |
| topic | ecology biodiversity agroecosystems food security analysis research |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/33369 |
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