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Since 1967 / Science to cultivate change Dr. Gisella S. Cruz-García DAPA [email protected] ASSETS: Ecosystem services, food security and nutritional health in the forest-agriculture interface
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Since 1967 / Science to cultivate change
Dr. Gisella S. Cruz-Garcí[email protected]
ASSETS: Ecosystem services, food security and nutritional health in the forest-agriculture interface
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Ecosystem services• Supporting: nutrient cycling, soil formation• Regulating: climate, flood, disease regulation • Provisioning: food, timber, fodder, fuel• Cultural: spiritual, aesthetic, recreational
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005
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Human dimensions of ecosystem services
• Ecosystem services offer benefits to the rural poor:• direct and indirect• material and non-material• monetary and non-monetary
• These benefits are reflected in human wellbeing.
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Food security framework• Availability: having a supply of enough quality food
• Access: having adequate economic resources and/or physical access or entitlements to acquire food
• Utilization: the food consumed is offering then energy and all nutrients required for a healthy life (including dietary diversity)
• Stability: availability, access and utilization are satisfied throughout the year and at all times
(FAO 1996)
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ASSETS Project
“Managing ecosystem services for food security and the nutritional health of the rural poor at the
forest-agriculture interface”
• Multi-institutional collaboration part of ESPA Initiative.• Themes:
1. Linkages between food security, nutritional health and ES2. Crises and tipping points involving past, current and future
interactions between food security and ES3. Science – policy interface
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UK:• University of Southampton (PI Poppy)• University of DundeeUSA:• Conservation InternationalSpain:• Basque Centre for Climate ChangeColombia:• CIAT• Universidad Nacional de ColombiaPeru• Instituto de Investigación de la Amazonia Peruana - IIAPMalawi:• Chancellor College (Co-PI Chiotha)• LEAD Southern and Eastern Africa plus Ministry of Forestry, Forest Research
Institute of Malawi• Rhodes University South Africa
The team
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Study sites: Colombia, Peru and Malawi
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Focus group – ES matrix ratingMen
Puerto Cordoba
Focus group – ES matrix ratingWomen
Comeyafú
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