Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative
Jones, Sarah K.; Monjeau, Adrian; Perez-Guzman, Katya; Harrison, Paula A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9873-3338.
2023
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative [in special issue: Globally-consistent national pathways towards sustainable food and land-use systems]
Sustainability Science, 18 (1).
323-333.
10.1007/s11625-023-01290-8
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Abstract/Summary
Humanity is challenged with making progress toward global biodiversity, freshwater, and climate goals, while providing food and nutritional security for everyone. Our current food and land-use systems are incompatible with this ambition making them unsustainable. Papers in this special feature introduce a participatory, integrated modeling approach applied to provide insights on how to transform food and land-use systems to sustainable trajectories in 12 countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Finland, India, Mexico, Rwanda, Sweden, the UK, and USA. Papers are based on work completed by members of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative, a network of in-country research teams engaging policymakers and other local stakeholders to co-develop future food and land-use scenarios and modeling their national and global sustainability impacts. Here, we discuss the key leverage points, methodological advances, and multi-sector engagement strategies presented and applied in this collection of work to set countries and our planet on course for achieving food security, biodiversity, freshwater, and climate targets by 2050.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
|---|---|
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1007/s11625-023-01290-8 |
| UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas: | Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-24) |
| ISSN: | 1862-4065 |
| Additional Information: | Open access paper - full text available via Official URL link. |
| Additional Keywords: | food systems, sustainable development, healthy diets, climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation |
| NORA Subject Terms: | Ecology and Environment Agriculture and Soil Science |
| Date made live: | 02 Nov 2023 09:37 +0 (UTC) |
| URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535339 |
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