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


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 ...

Fisheries, food security, climate change, and biodiversity

Global fish production has increased ∼80 times in volume since 1950, to reach some 144 million tonnes in 2006 (FAO, 2007, 2009). Capture fisheries production ...

Securing the human right to food: How ESG intersects with food ...

The human right to food is becoming increasingly relevant as climate change and biodiversity losses increase pressure on food supply, and issues of food ...

Environmental Impacts of Food Production - Our World in Data

This loss of natural habitat has been the main driver for reducing the world's biodiversity. Wildlife can rebound if we reduce agricultural land use and ...

Biodiversity 101 - NRDC

In turn, the destruction of ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity bring cascading economic costs. That's why the World Economic Forum listed ...

Climate Impacts on Ecosystems - US EPA

Climate change and shifts in ecological conditions could support the spread of pathogens, parasites, and diseases, with potentially serious ...

Food Systems and the Environment

In return, food systems suffer from climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. ... Pollutants from agriculture a serious threat to world's water ...

Biodiversity Loss and Why It Matters - Resonance Global

Reducing food waste · Adapting to diets with a lower environmental impact, and · Further sustainable intensification and trade.

Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications ...

The narrowing of diversity in crop species contributing to the world's food supplies has been considered a potential threat to food security.

What is the Triple Planetary Crisis? | UNFCCC

Biodiversity is the baseline for everything on the planet – as in the end we are all interlinked. Biodiversity loss impacts food supplies ...

Biodiversity: Nature by Another Name

If we remove too many pieces the health of our environment, food supply, and economies could crumble. ... The nature we need is under threat ...

How are climate change and biodiversity loss linked?

This ecological crisis is already impacting millions of people around the world. Overfishing is affecting food supplies and livelihoods in ...

Food Security | Rising Food Insecurity - World Bank

The global food crisis has been partially made worse by the growing number of food and fertilizer trade restrictions put in place by countries ...

Biodiversity & Diet - A Well-Fed World

Animal Agriculture Driving Biodiversity Loss ... “The consumption of animal-sourced food products by humans is one of the most powerful negative forces affecting ...

Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean - IDB

Food production is responsible for about 60-70% of the loss of different species on land and around 50% in freshwater. Wood extraction is the ...

Sustaining insect biodiversity in agricultural systems to ensure future ...

According to the Global Footprint Network (2022) our biggest ecological footprint in 2020, making up 30% of the total, was through the production of food. This ...