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World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity


5 Things Countries Can Do This Year to Stop Biodiversity Loss

2) Mainstream nature in policies on food and water. The global food system is the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss, with agricultural ...

World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity

World's food supply under 'severe threat' from loss of biodiversity ... Plants, insects and organisms crucial to food production in steep decline, ...

Biodiversity loss—more than an environmental emergency

The recent global assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services attracted high levels of media interest in ...

The Global Food System: Trends, impacts, and solutions - Metabolic

These include impacts in areas of preservation of global biodiversity, mitigation of climate change, management of soils and essential non-renewable resources, ...

Ensuring Food Supply and Safeguarding Biodiversity in Italy - Huawei

Intensive industrial agriculture continues to have a devastating impact on global biodiversity. In 2021, the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) reported that ...

Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food ...

The following arguments outline why biodiversity loss is not only an environmental challenge but also a global societal challenge to safeguard ...

The benefits to biodiversity of a strong circular economy

The food and agriculture sector is a major contributor to the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, due to land use change (habitat loss) ...

2 Agriculture's Impacts on Biodiversity, the Environment, and Climate

In addition to its effects on climate, the expansion of agriculture has caused massive losses in biodiversity around the world: natural habitats have been ...

Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems - Science

Less than 200 species currently contribute to global food supplies, and this lack of variety has serious health consequences. Low dietary ...

Shrinking biodiversity of plants cultivated for food poses severe threat

The largest number of wild food species in decline is reported in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, followed by Asia-Pacific and Africa.

Biodiversity and Agriculture - FoodPrint

On a global scale, industrial agriculture threatens biodiversity, by being a major contributor to climate change. Agriculture-related emissions, ...

Harmony in Diversity: Harnessing Food Biodiversity to Combat ...

Habitat Alteration and Carbon Sequestration: Rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events alter habitats, ...

The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Business Crisis | BCG

But the economic impact of a decline of natural regulatory functions and a resulting increase in major disturbances such as flooding will extend ...

food industry discusses solutions to stop biodiversity loss

The World Biodiversity Council identifies one million animal and plant species that are so severely threatened that they could become extinct before the end of ...

African Biodiversity Loss Raises Risk to Human Security

Declines in Africa's rich ecological biodiversity threaten millions of livelihoods, as well as increased food insecurity, conflicts over ...

Current guidance underestimates risk of global environmental ...

Projections of future food security require careful interpretation because they are often based on models that include only a subset of ...

How to mitigate the effects of climate change on global food security

These challenges have wide-reaching implications for food supplies around the world, as food production is impacted by rising temperatures, ...

1. 1. What makes biodiversity important for food and agriculture?

Among the most serious ones is the need to increase food production globally without undermining the capacity of the world's lands and seas to meet the food ...

Tackling the Twin Climate Change and Biodiversity Crises - IUCN

The twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the biggest risks facing our ability to survive and thrive on this planet.

Nature and biodiversity loss | Ceres: Sustainability is the bottom line

The global economy depends on nature and the services it provides. Ceres works across economic sectors to reverse nature and biodiversity loss by addressing ...