The impact of interventions in the global land and agri-food sectors on Nature's Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Global Change Biology
Pamela McElweePete Smith

Abstract

Interlocked challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation require transformative interventions in the land management and food production sectors to reduce carbon emissions, strengthen adaptive capacity, and increase food security. However, deciding which interventions to pursue and understanding their relative co-benefits with and trade-offs against different social and environmental goals have been difficult without comparisons across a range of possible actions. This study examined 40 different options, implemented through land management, value chains, or risk management, for their relative impacts across 18 Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs) and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We find that a relatively small number of interventions show positive synergies with both SDGs and NCPs with no significant adverse trade-offs; these include improved cropland management, improved grazing land management, improved livestock management, agroforestry, integrated water management, increased soil organic carbon content, reduced soil erosion, salinization, and compaction, fire management, reduced landslides and hazards, reduced pollution, reduced post-harvest losses, improved energy use in food sy...Continue Reading

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Aug 10, 2021·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Pete SmithTapan K Adhya
Aug 10, 2021·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Pete SmithPam McElwee
Aug 10, 2021·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·P M SacoS G Sandi
Sep 28, 2021·Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences·Andy ReisingerSinead Leahy
May 17, 2021·Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology·Shannon HagermanRobin Gregory
Oct 13, 2021·Current Biology : CB·David P EdwardsRhett D Harrison
Dec 25, 2021·Global Change Biology·Pete SmithHien Ngo

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