Presentation by Parviz Koohafkan, Senior Honorary Research Fellow at Bioversity International, and Global Coordinator of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS).
This was presented during a seminar hosted at Bioversity International on 'The Indicators of Resilience in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)' in January 2014.
Find out more: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/agricultural-ecosystems/landscapes/
8. Changing Diet, Nutrition, health and
biodiversity
• Hidden hunger: missing micronutrients
– More than 2 billion worldwide
– Mostly women and children
• Double burden: diseases of “affluence”
– Type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease,
cancers
12. Malezas en floracion de las familias compositae o umbeliferae atraen
insectos beneficos en busca debiodiversity
Loss of functional polen y nectar
13. Towards 2050… food requirements
+60%
food
production
needs
globally
+100%
in developing
countries
14. The Challenges Ahead Require:
A Paradigm Shift in
Development(Agricultural) Policies
addressing
food security
and Poverty
While
Sustaining
Natural
Resources Base
15. Best options for the poorest?
Great success in the past… but still
nearly one billion people are hungry
• Key questions:
– to what extent can farmers improve
their food production with low-cost and
locally-available technologies and
inputs?
– What impacts do these methods have on
natural resources and environmental
goods and services and the livelihoods of
people relying on them?
16. A major opportunity: Small
holders and Family Farming
• Produce the bulk of the global food
• Are the largest number of stewards for the
– environment and its services including
biodiversity,
• Higher and sustainable productivity increase at
their level will have a major impact on poverty
reduction, economic growth and climate change
mitigation and adaptation
18. Investing in All Assets of Rural Systems
(livelihoods, communities, economies)
Natural Capital:
nature’s goods and services
(waste assimilation, pollination, storm
protection, water supply, wildlife)
Social Capital:
cohesiveness of people
and societies trust, reciprocity,
rules and norms,
networks and institutions
Physical Capital:
Infrastructure, roads
markets
Human Capital:
the status of individuals health, skills, knowledge
Financial Capital:
money, savings
21. Was conceptualized and launched
in 2002 at the occasion of World
Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg
South Africa
22. GIAHS selection Criteria :
Local food and livelihood security,
biodiversity and genetic resources
Local knowledge of individuals and
community
Cultural Diversity of Agri ”Culture”
including products and services
diversity
Landscape diversity and aesthetic
values
23. THEY ARE UNDER
THREAT BCAUSE OF:
• Inappropriate policy,
legal and incentive
frameworks,
• Industrialization of
agriculture and Neglect
of diversified systems
and local knowledge,
•Low community
involvement in decision
making,
• Population pressure
and cultural change
24. Centers of Origin of the agricultural
Civilizations
The eight Vavilovian Centers of Origin of Crops
32. At Global level
by identification, selection and recognition of GIAHS
At National level
by capacity building in policy, regulatory and incentive
mechanisms to safeguard these outstanding systems
and use them as sustainability bench mark systems
At Local Level
by empowerment of local communities and technical
assistance for sustainable resource management,
promoting traditional knowledge and enhancing
viability of these systemsHOW ?
through economic incentives
34. Examples of Opportunities for Traditional Farmers through GIAHS
Native potatoes, Peru
Ecological Farming Chiloe
Rice-fish culture products , China
Natives Dates Oases, Tunisia
35. GIAHS is not about the past, it is about the future
California USA
However, global achievements in production in some regions have been associated with degradation of land and water resources, and the deterioration of related ecosystem services, including biomass, carbon storage, soil health, water storage and supply, biodiversity, and social and cultural services.
The prevailing patterns of agricultural production need to be critically reviewed. A series of land and water systems now face the risk of progressive breakdown of their productive capacity under a combination of excessive demographic pressure and unsustainable agricultural practices. The physical limits to land and water availability within these systems may be further exacerbated in places by external drivers, including climate change, competition with other sectors and socio-economic changes. These systems at risk warrant priority attention for remedial action simply because there are no substitutes.
Much evidence of protective effects of diversity of diet, in developed and developing countries.
Toward 2050, rising population and incomes are expected to call for 70% more food production globally, and up to 100% more in developing countries, relative to 2009 levels. rojections only, still with these projections 4 percent of chronically undernourished in developing countries (290 million)
Several countries with rapidly growing demand for food are also those that face high levels of land or water scarcity. The largest contribution to increases in agricultural output will most likely come from intensification of production on existing agricultural land. This will require widespread adoption of sustainable land management practices, and more efficient use of irrigation water through enhanced flexibility, reliability and timing of irrigation water delivery.
Picture is from Chiang Mai, Thailand.Staples, home gardens, nutritious etc