TY - JOUR

T1 - Reframing the Food–Biodiversity Challenge

AU - Fischer, Joern

AU - Abson, David J.

AU - Bergsten, Arvid

AU - Collier, Neil

AU - Dorresteijn, Ine

AU - Hanspach, Jan

AU - Hylander, Kristoffer

AU - Schultner, Jannik

AU - Senbeta, Feyera

PY - 2017/5

Y1 - 2017/5

N2 - Given the serious limitations of production-oriented frameworks, we offer here a new conceptual framework for how to analyze the nexus of food security and biodiversity conservation. We introduce four archetypes of social-ecological system states corresponding to win–win (e.g., agroecology), win–lose (e.g., intensive agriculture), lose–win (e.g., fortress conservation), and lose–lose (e.g., degraded landscapes) outcomes for food security and biodiversity conservation. Each archetype is shaped by characteristic external drivers, exhibits characteristic internal social-ecological features, and has characteristic feedbacks that maintain it. This framework shifts the emphasis from focusing on production only to considering social-ecological dynamics, and enables comparison among landscapes. Moreover, examining drivers and feedbacks facilitates the analysis of possible transitions between system states (e.g., from a lose–lose outcome to a more preferred outcome).

AB - Given the serious limitations of production-oriented frameworks, we offer here a new conceptual framework for how to analyze the nexus of food security and biodiversity conservation. We introduce four archetypes of social-ecological system states corresponding to win–win (e.g., agroecology), win–lose (e.g., intensive agriculture), lose–win (e.g., fortress conservation), and lose–lose (e.g., degraded landscapes) outcomes for food security and biodiversity conservation. Each archetype is shaped by characteristic external drivers, exhibits characteristic internal social-ecological features, and has characteristic feedbacks that maintain it. This framework shifts the emphasis from focusing on production only to considering social-ecological dynamics, and enables comparison among landscapes. Moreover, examining drivers and feedbacks facilitates the analysis of possible transitions between system states (e.g., from a lose–lose outcome to a more preferred outcome).

KW - Ecosystems Research

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015610001&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.009

DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2017.02.009

M3 - Scientific review articles

C2 - 28284373

AN - SCOPUS:85015610001

VL - 32

SP - 335

EP - 345

JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution

SN - 0169-5347

IS - 5

ER -