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Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural Science

Background:

  • Traditional production-focused frameworks inadequately address the complex interactions between food security and biodiversity conservation.
  • Existing approaches often fail to capture the nuanced social-ecological dynamics inherent in land management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel conceptual framework for analyzing the nexus of food security and biodiversity conservation.
  • To introduce four archetypes of social-ecological system states and their associated outcomes.
  • To facilitate the comparison of different landscapes and the analysis of transitions between system states.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a conceptual framework based on social-ecological system states.
  • Identification of four archetypes: win-win, win-lose, lose-win, and lose-lose.
  • Analysis of characteristic drivers, internal features, and feedbacks for each archetype.

Main Results:

  • The framework categorizes outcomes for food security and biodiversity conservation into four archetypes: agroecology (win-win), intensive agriculture (win-lose), fortress conservation (lose-win), and degraded landscapes (lose-lose).
  • Each archetype is defined by specific external drivers, internal social-ecological characteristics, and self-maintaining feedback loops.
  • The framework highlights the importance of social-ecological dynamics and enables landscape comparison.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework offers a more holistic approach to understanding the food security-biodiversity nexus by integrating social-ecological dynamics.
  • It provides a tool for analyzing landscape-level interactions and identifying pathways for transitioning from undesirable to more favorable system states.
  • This approach moves beyond production-centric views to encompass broader system feedbacks and drivers.