What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems?

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dc.creatorGotor, Elisabetta
dc.creatorMasso, Cargele
dc.date2025-07-21
dc.date2025-06-20T19:10:40Z
dc.date2025-06-20T19:10:40Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:27:55Z
dc.descriptionThe environment’s proper functioning is essential for a better life on Earth, including maintaining, enhancing, and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services. While the environment is driven by external factors and shocks as well as interventions within the global food system, it simultaneously drives the overall health and stability of the planet. This relationship involves complex interactions and tipping points, which foresight research needs to capture in analyzing alternative future pathways for food system transformation. A sustainable and resilient environment requires holistic approaches, strategies, and policies to address environmental stresses and promote conservation, regeneration, and coexistence with nature. These include practices that respect ecological boundaries, reduce resource consumption and conflict, foster biodiversity, and enhance ecosystem recovery and adaptability. Foresight research is essential to help decision-makers understand synergies and trade-offs between long-term public goods benefits and short-term private costs from resource use and management. Addressing food systems challenges — including root causes of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss — requires sustainable land and soil management, conservation efforts, and food production practices, in addition to economic viability and social inclusion. Foresight analysis can help policymakers, communities, and industries make informed decisions and prioritize and deploy effective and holistic strategies at the biodiversity-climate-society nexus.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/175227
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/60233
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/175019
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceGotor, Elisabetta; and Masso, Cargele. 2025. What do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems? In What do we know about the future of food systems? eds. Keith Wiebe and Elisabetta Gotor. Part One: What Do We Know About the Future of Food Systems Drivers and Impacts? Chapter 5, Pp. 28-33. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175227
dc.subjectenvironment
dc.subjectbiodiversity
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectenvironmental degradation
dc.subjectresource conservation
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectecosystem services
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectnatural resources management
dc.subjectsustainable land use
dc.titleWhat do we know about the future of the environment and biodiversity in relation to food systems?
dc.typeBook Chapter

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