UNEP: Food and Ecological Security

The 4th issue of the UNEP Policy Series on Ecosystem Management focuses on the synergy and trade-offs in ensuring food and ecological security. While discussing the impacts of accelerated food production on ecosystems and ecosystem services, the brief stresses that policies and management approaches that aim to minimize the effects of ecosystem service trade-offs should based on a thorough understanding of the trade-offs.

Also available in French and Spanish on the UNEP at www.unep.org/policyseries.