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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Tradeoffs Between Food Security And The Environment, Claudia Ringler
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Tradeoffs Between Food Security And The Environment, Claudia Ringler
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
This paper provides an overview of selected trends and conditions of ecosystem services, in particular, food production and impacts on the environment based on the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. It then describes outcomes for future ecosystem services under alternative development pathways, with a focus on tradeoffs between food security and the environment, such as implications for fertilizer use, and the role of biofuels. As tradeoffs among various ecosystem services are expected to increase into the future, research will need to focus increasingly on ways to achieve a balance between food security and improving non-food ecosystem services. To reduce adverse future impacts, …