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

dc.contributor.authorScherer, L.
dc.contributor.authorSvenning, J.C.
dc.contributor.authorHuang, J.
dc.contributor.authorSeymour, C.
dc.contributor.authorSandel, B.
dc.contributor.authorMueller, N.
dc.contributor.authorKummu, M.
dc.contributor.authorBekunda, M.
dc.contributor.authorBruelheide, H.
dc.contributor.authorHochman, Z.
dc.contributor.authorSiebert, S.
dc.contributor.authorRueda, O.
dc.contributor.authorvan Bodegom, P.M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-16T06:55:31Z
dc.date.available2022-08-16T06:55:31Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-15
dc.identifier.citationScherer, L., Svenning, J.C., Huang, J., Seymour, C., Sandel, B., Mueller, N., ... & van Bodegom, P.M. (2020). Global priorities of environmental issues to combat food insecurity and biodiversity loss. Science of the Total Environment, 730:139096, 1-9.
dc.identifier.issn0048-9697
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7641
dc.description.abstractVarious 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.
dc.format.extent1-9
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectPrioritization
dc.subjectEnvironmental Protection
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subjectEcosystems
dc.titleGlobal priorities of environmental issues to combat food insecurity and biodiversity loss
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.affiliationLeiden University
cg.contributor.affiliationAarhus University
cg.contributor.affiliationSouthwest University of Science and Technology, China
cg.contributor.affiliationSouth African National Biodiversity Institute
cg.contributor.affiliationSanta Clara University
cg.contributor.affiliationColorado State University
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
cg.contributor.affiliationGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
cg.contributor.affiliationCSIRO Agriculture and Food, Australia
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Göttingen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Cape Town
cg.coverage.hubEastern Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeNatural Resource Management
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidSCHERER:2020
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectBiodiversity
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.journalScience of the Total Environment
cg.notesPublished online: 30 April 2020
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139096
cg.iitaauthor.identifierMateete Bekunda: 0000-0001-7297-9383
cg.futureupdate.requiredNo
cg.identifier.volume730


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