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Food Security and Sustainable Resource Use: Comments, by Sara Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners
The document discusses food security and sustainable resource use, emphasizing the need for integrated landscape initiatives in agriculture for the 21st century. It highlights the importance of stakeholder collaboration in biodiversity conservation and resource management across regions and outlines key agroecological practices that yield high productivity and ecosystem services. The recommendations include promoting best practices, supporting multi-objective farm initiatives, and focusing scientific efforts on multifunctional systems.
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Food Security and Sustainable Resource Use: Comments, by Sara Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners
- 1. Food Security andSustainable Resource Use: Comments Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century Dublin, Ireland – 11-12 April 2013
- 2. Securing Food Supplyin the 21st Century: Beyond Field-Scale Productivity
- 3. More than Food:Societal Demands from Agricultural Landscapes
- 4. Beyond Resource UseEfficiency: Negotiating Whole Landscape System Efficiency
- 5. From Diagnosis toSolutions: Pathways toTransform Agriculture
- 6. An Explosion ofInnovation on the Ground
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- 8. Ongoing Integrated AgricultureLandscape Initiatives Latin America & Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa # Integrated Landscape Initiatives Identified 104 87 # Countries Represented 21 33 Most Common Motivations for Stakeholder Collaboration Biodiversity Conservation, Reducing Natural Resource Degradation Biodiversity and Natural Resource Conservation Average # Stakeholders Involved in Initiative (primary stakeholders) 11 (farmers, local government, NGOs) 9+ (local/district government, NGOs, producer groups) Core Investment Domains Institutional planning & coordination, Agricultural production, Conservation & Livelihoods Institutional planning & coordination; Conservation; Agricultural production Milder, et al. Unpublished Data
- 9. Agroecological Practices thatGenerate Both HighYields and Ecosystem Services Ecosystem Service Conservation Agriculture Holistic Grazing Organic Agriculture Precision Agriculture System of Rice Intensification Number of studies that indicate positive, neutral or negative outcomes for select system & service combinations. + = - + = - + = - + = - + = - Pest Control 1 2 4 7 6 Soil Fertility & Structure 14 2 4 4 3 3 55 8 1 1 12 2 1 Nutrient Cycling 6 1 2 2 1 1 23 39 5 12 2 Wild Biodiversity 3 11 23 1 2 Erosion Control 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 H20 qual. & quant. 16 2 2 1 1 9 52 2 Garbach, et al. 2012. ‘An Assessment of the Multi-Functionality of Agroecological Intensification.’ EcoAgriculture Partners: Washington, DC. total # of studies reviewed = 219
- 10. Restoring Ecosystem Functionin Agricultural Landscapes
- 11. Farmers Mobilizing forLand Stewardship, Production and Market Access
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- 13. 1) Promote Adoptionof Known Best Practices (short-term)
- 14. 2) Support InitiativesAdvancing Multi-Objective Farms and Landscapes (medium-term)
- 15. 3) Focus AdvancedScience on Multi- Functional Systems (long-term)
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Photo of Kijabe, Kenya
- #3 Example of place where increasing food production clearly depends on more than good varieties of seed and fertilizer, it also needs landscape management.Madagascar highlands (rice terraces) photo courtesy of Christian Kull.
- #4 Diagram of large agricultural landscape showing flows of different ecosystem services (water, GHG, wild species, healthy habitat for people…) and diverse products. Diagram produced in collaboration with Conservation International.
- #6 Indonesia (palm oil on top, rice paddy on the bottom).
- #11 For example,The Bonn Challenge, the Zero Degradation Challenge, the Zero Hunger Challenge.
- #12 Photos:Honduras, well digging project (courtesy of Neil Palmer, CIAT)Cameroon, Gnemuta Market Access project (courtesy of Neil Palmer, CIAT)Mbeya, Kenya Spatial Planning Workshop (EcoAgriculture Partners)
- #14 Promote widespread local community adaptation of known practices with synergies for production, natural resources, ecosystem function, local livelihoods.
- #15 Innovative practitioners and initiatives advancing complex farming and landscape systems need our support.Holistic Management in the Dimbangombe Ranch project, Zimbabwe (courtesy of African Biodiversity Network)Rupa Lake, Nepal (courtesy of LI-Bird)SABMiller’s brewery and landscape, Bogota, Colombia. Case study in the business case work. Photo is by Foto Rudolf, rudolf.com
- #16 Focus and frame advanced science on multi-functional farm and landscape systems.Seed bank photo courtesy Neil Palmer, CIATUSFWS doing water quality monitoring (US Fish and Wildlife Service)REDD+ project readiness in Aceh, Indonesia (EcoAgriculture Partners)