Summary for policymakers of the thematic assessment on pollinators, pollination and food production

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“…The interrelated biodiversity, health and climate crises that we face are unprecedented in human history, and the health of our planet and our future have never been so threatened. Biodiversity, the very basis of ecosystem functioning and resilience, is currently being lost at a magnitude that threatens Earth's ability to sustain future human life [3][4][5]. Scientists across disciplines agree that humanity is on an environmental precipice.…”

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“…Exponential increases in resource extraction, combined with intensive production patterns and unsustainably high consumption levels, have resulted in massive land degradation, biodiversity loss, overexploitation and stock depletion of natural resources, pollution, emergence of infectious and the surge in non-communicable diseases, and climate change [4,7]. Intensification of food production systems, associated with the "Green Revolution's" aim of preventing widespread food insecurity, has lifted millions of people out of poverty [8,9].…”

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“…More than one third of the Earth's land surface is now devoted to croplands and grazing lands, and as a consequence half of the world's temperate and tropical forests, home to 80% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, have been cleared [4]. Recent fires in the Amazon and on other continents threaten to trigger a tipping point, leading to irreversible changes in regional and global weather patterns, consequently depriving a million indigenous people of their homes and livelihoods.…”

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Helping to heal nature and ourselves through human-rights-based and gender-responsive One Health

Garnier

Savić

Boriani³

et al. 2020

One Health Outlook

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The health of our planet and humanity is threatened by biodiversity loss, disease and climate crises that are unprecedented in human history, driven by our insatiable consumption and unsustainable production patterns, particularly food systems. The One Health approach is a pathway to synergistically addressing outcomes in term of health and sustainability, but gender issues at the One Health and biodiversity nexus are largely ignored.By examining the roles and responsibilities of Indigenous and Local People, and especially women, in conserving natural resources, and the social costs of living at the Human-Animal-Environment interface under current conservation strategies, we show that women bear a disproportionate health, poverty and climate burden, despite having pivotal roles in conserving biodiversity. To mitigate risks of emerging infectious diseases, food insecurity and climate change impacts, a gender perspective has previously been proposed, but implementation lags behind. Endemic zoonotic diseases, human-wildlife conflict and environmental pollution lack gender-sensitive frameworks. We demonstrate that women can be powerful agents for change at all levels of society, from communities to businesses, and policy-making institutions, but gender inequalities still persist.We develop a framework for mainstreaming a gender-responsive and rights-based One Health approach, in order to heal ourselves and nature. Using a leverage-points perspective, we suggest a change of paradigm, from the pursuit of GDP and over-consumption, to a focus on human well-being and their reconnection with healthy environments, using a One Health understanding of nature and health. We recommend learning from Indigenous People to re-position ourselves within nature and to better conserve biodiversity. We also propose integration of gender equity in leadership, the respect of human rights, women’s rights (access to health care, healthy food, land tenure, natural resources, education, and economic opportunities), and the rights of nature, through the implementation of gender-responsive and rights-based One Health Action Plans, at policy-making level, in the private sector and the civil society. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unveil deep socio-economic inequities in the wealthiest economies and the vital role of nature in supporting our health, we argue to seize this opportunity to build back better and improve resilience and sustainability by using a gender-responsive and rights-based One Health approach.

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Savić

Boriani³

et al. 2020

One Health Outlook

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“…Industrialization of the agricultural sector has contributed to labor-efficient farming around the world that benefits from high-input production, monoculture, specialization and economies of scale. However, it has become clear that this development simultaneously contributes to the degradation of land, water and ecosystems, increased emissions of greenhouse gases, loss of biodiversity, as well as the economic and social stress experienced by farmers (Cristóvão, Koutsouris, and Kügler 2012;Díaz et al 2019;Frison 2016). Meanwhile, the agricultural sector is subject to an increasing level of uncertainty due to climate change, degradation of soil and water quality, fluctuating market prices, shifting regulations and societal demands, all of which call for more resilient solutions (Duru et al 2015;Folke 2006).…”

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Opportunities and barriers in diversified farming and the use of agroecological principles in the Global North – The experiences of Danish biodynamic farmers

Aare

Egmose

Lund

et al. 2020

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

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Diversification through agroecological principles may maintain and stabilize yields in an increasingly more unpredictable climate, including market price fluctuations, as well as preserve and enhance the threatened natural resource base and the environment. Based on a participatory interview process this article identifies the barriers encountered by a group of Danish biodynamic farmers striving for self-sufficient farm systems with no or very little dependency on imported materials by developing biologically, economically and socially diverse farms. Through an iterative interview process the study found that barriers outside farm management are hindering the transition toward diverse farming and that a further exploration of the need for and implications of food sovereignty in the Global North might generate the discussions needed to support implementation of more agroecological farming system practises.

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“…Current levels of environmental change world-wide have led to alarming consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (Díaz et al, 2019;Newbold et al, 2015). Beyond affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services, environmental change can have persistent, long-term effects that propagate over time, from a few to thousands of years (Halley, Monokrousos, Mazaris, Newmark, & Vokou, 2016;Kuussaari et al, 2009;Leprieur et al, 2011;Moreno-Mateos et al, 2017;Rowan et al, 2020).…”

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Interactive persistent effects of past land‐cover and its trajectory on tropical freshwater biodiversity

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Wagner

Ferraz

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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1. Evidence indicating that ecological communities show delayed responses to environmental change has raised the need to better understand the effects of landscape history on biodiversity. 2. We investigated how freshwater biodiversity is related to both recent and past land use change in tropical river catchments. More specifically, we analysed the relationship between biodiversity and change in forest cover that occurred across five decades, including landscape trajectories of forest gain and loss. Past Recent Current Landscape change Effect size on current community diversity Extinction debt Species credit Forest proportion (mean) across time Species richness Recent forest gain Recent forest loss Stable forest remnant (a) (b) | 2151 Journal of Applied Ecology SANTOS eT Al.

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Summary for policymakers of the thematic assessment on pollinators, pollination and food production

Cited by 13 publications

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Helping to heal nature and ourselves through human-rights-based and gender-responsive One Health

Helping to heal nature and ourselves through human-rights-based and gender-responsive One Health

Opportunities and barriers in diversified farming and the use of agroecological principles in the Global North – The experiences of Danish biodynamic farmers

Interactive persistent effects of past land‐cover and its trajectory on tropical freshwater biodiversity

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