Using Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Actions to Tackle Food Insecurity

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. UN, World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision (New York, NY: United Nations Population Division, 2009). 2. Ecosystem-based adaptation is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation strategy to help people and communities adapt to the negative effects of climate change at local, national, regional and global levels. EbA provides many other benefits to communities, including food security (from fisheries to agroforestry), sustainable water management, and livelihood diversification (through increasing resource-use options). 3. R. Munang, I. Thiaw, and M. Rivington, "Ecosystem Management: Tomorrow's Approach to Enhancing Food Security Under a Changing Climate," Sustainability 3(2011): 937–954. 4. R. Munang, and J. N. Nkem, "Using Small-Scale Adaptation Actions to Address the Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Going Beyond Food Aid and Cash Transfers," Sustainability 3(2011), 1510–1516. 5. http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2011/March-April%202011/rural-water-saharan-africa-full.html 6. Munang and Nkem, note 4 above.