Project
Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient and Circular Food Systems
Nature-based solutions are claimed to positively contribute to food security under climate change conditions. However, the knowledge underpinning this claim is fragmented and insufficiently existent. This project aimed to improve our understanding about nature-based solutions in the context of food systems at risks due to climate change.
Case studies are used to improve understanding of different types of pathways and interventions that are inspired by or make use of natural processes. We have tried to include underpinning mechanisms as well as their potentials and limitations in achieving food security and maintaining (and/or increasing) biodiversity and circularity under climate change.
Project
Concepts:
Use Cases
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Increasing diversity as underpinning mechanism
Case study I examines the functioning, potentials and limitations of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) by increasing (bio)diversity. These solutions aim to... -
Resource efficiency (water)
Case study II applies a landscape-based approach to examine and act upon nature-based solutions with the aim to address the mismatch between (waste)...
Publications
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Mapping opportunities for rainwater harvesting and forest landscape restoration in Ghana’s Bono-East region : a participatory modelling approach
Wageningen: Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (Report / Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation WCDI-22-231) -
Nature-based solutions for climate-resilient and circular food systems : A first step towards an economic evaluation
Wageningen: Wageningen Economic Research (Report / Wageningen Economic Research 2023-021) - ISBN: 9789464476798 -
Nature-based solutions en hun bijdragen aan transities richting een circulaire en klimaatneutrale toekomst : Een verkenning van vijf casussen uit het KB programma Nature Based Solutions for Circulair and Climate Neutral Food Systems van Wageningen University & Research
Wageningen: Wageningen Environmental Research (Rapport / Wageningen Environmental Research 3278) -
Knowledge needs in realising the full potential of seaweed for world food provisioning
Global Food Security (2023), Volume: 37 - ISSN 2211-9124 -
Nature-based adaptation pathways for climate-resilient and safe food systems
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Herbal-rich grassland as Nature-based Solution for climate resilient and circular food systems
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Ecoprofielen – naar een effectieve inzet van natuurlijke vijanden op kool : Notitie werkzaamheden 2021 - sluipwespen
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Nature based solutions: What contaminants/ adulteration / misidentification can be involved in using herbs and spices?
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Nature based solutions: how practices of small-scale farming using herbal remedies can be up scaled for more intensive systems
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Nature-based solutions as building blocks for the transition towards climate resilient and circular food systems