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    Global priorities of environmental issues to combat food insecurity and biodiversity loss

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    Date
    2020-08-15
    Author
    Scherer, L.
    Svenning, J.C.
    Huang, J.
    Seymour, C.
    Sandel, B.
    Mueller, N.
    Kummu, M.
    Bekunda, M.
    Bruelheide, H.
    Hochman, Z.
    Siebert, S.
    Rueda, O.
    van Bodegom, P.M.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review Status
    Peer Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    Abstract/Description
    Various environmental challenges are rapidly threatening ecosystems and societies globally. Major interventions and a strategic approach are required to minimize harm and to avoid reaching catastrophic tipping points. Setting evidence-based priorities aids maximizing the impact of the limited resources available for environmental interventions. Focusing on protecting both food security and biodiversity, international experts prioritized major environmental challenges for intervention based on three comprehensive criteria – importance, neglect, and tractability. The top priorities differ between food security and biodiversity. For food security, the top priorities are pollinator loss, soil compaction, and nutrient depletion, and for biodiversity conservation, ocean acidification and land and sea use (especially habitat degradation) are the main concerns. While climate change might be the most pressing environmental challenge and mitigation is clearly off-track, other issues rank higher because of climate change's high attention in research. Research and policy agendas do not yet consistently cover these priorities. Thus, a shift in attention towards the high-priority environmental challenges, identified here, is needed to increase the effectiveness of global environmental protection.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139096
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7641
    IITA Authors ORCID
    Mateete Bekundahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7297-9383
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139096
    Research Themes
    Natural Resource Management
    IITA Subjects
    Biodiversity; Food Security
    Agrovoc Terms
    Prioritization; Environmental Protection; Agriculture; Ecosystems
    Hubs
    Eastern Africa Hub
    Journals
    Science of the Total Environment
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