Whether the topic is climate change, more resilient and productive food systems, markets for ecosystem services or circular/closed system approaches to managing agricultural lands, the future of global agriculture is being debated and mapped out in multiple UN platforms, and the voice of farmers, who manage much of the world’s terrestrial resource base, are underrepresented in these deliberations.
The best hope for finding solutions and managing the changes is to better understand how complex systems work on many levels and develop innovative collaboration strategies that enable the achievement of shared objectives.
These goals – a restoration of water resources, enhancement of biodiversity and a curbing of climate change, among others – create a bold vision that is possible through a framework with strategic design to bring human systems into alignment and harmony with natural systems.
Published in International Agri-Food Network.
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