Combining mitigation strategies to increase co-benefits for biodiversity and food security

Combining mitigation strategies to increase co-benefits for biodiversity and food security

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World agriculture needs to find the right balance to cope with the trilemma between feeding a growing population, reducing its impact on biodiversity and minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.In this paper, we evaluate a broad range of scenarios Mushroom Vapes that achieve 4.3 GtCO _2,eq /year GHG mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land-Use (AFOLU) sector by 2100.

Scenarios include varying mixes of three GHG mitigation policies: second-generation biofuel production, dietary change and reforestation of pasture.We find that focusing mitigation on a single policy can lead to positive results for a single indicator of food security or biodiversity conservation, but with significant negative side effects on others.A balanced portfolio of all three mitigation policies, while not optimal for any single criterion, minimizes trade-offs by blunt wraps avoiding large negative effects on food security and biodiversity conservation.

At the regional scale, the trade-off seen globally between biodiversity and food security is nuanced by different regional contexts.