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IDR Team Summary 5: Design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition.
IDR Team Summary 5: Design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition.
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Insufficient or unpredictable food supplies commonly result in malnutrition, illness, poor cognition, and both acute and chronic diseases. Poor food security tends to link with economic impoverishment to create conditions that lower agricultural productivity, and in turn, lead to poorer management of multiple land uses, potentially affecting a variety of related ecosystem services.
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Review and validation of dietary diversity, food frequency and other proxy indicators of household food security. Prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Sala, Arizona State University IDR TEAM SUMMARY Ashley M Latta, NAKFI Science Writing Scholar University of Maryland IDR Team 5 was asked to design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition.
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While extensive, the list is by no means complete. Threats to production and distribution include the emergence of major diseases, such as cassava mosaic and wheat rust, an underestimation of diseases, lack of crop diversity, inefficient production contingent upon market forces (e.g., cattle production based solely on grass when the price of corn is high)
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This would improve ecosystem services of land that may be blighted in urban areas, reduce the carbon footprint of that food system, improve water infiltration and storm water control, produce nutritious food, and potentially improve soil quality. But the team readily agreed that these opportunities must be placespecific.
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Case Study 1: Ecosystems California rice lands: changes in Services management of rice straw decomposition Producer Distribution Economics Consumer Food security Science & Technology Public Policy Education Ecosystems Case Study 2: Services Turkana in Kenya Producer Distribution Consumer Economics Food security Science & Technology Public Policy Education
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Some of the important gaps in science and technology identified by the group include a way to quantify ecosystem services in the context of food security, an understanding of how to influence the incentive structure through policy changes, the development of new technologies to meet projected food and nutrition needs in a changing global climate, place-based adaptation of technologies, an understanding and incorporation of local knowledge on agrobiodiversity to increase food security, and other transformational technologies. The team concluded that with further research, solutions to improve long-term food security could be developed and the subsequent benefits to society would include enhanced human potential and quality of life, environmental conservation, and human conflict reduction.
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