How does Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) help advance climate change mitigation and adaptation?
Ntiokam Divine, Executive Director and Founder of #CSAYN-Climate Smart Agriculture Youth Network speak at the #NBS event
of the Climate Action Summit 2019. On this occasion, he stressed on the importance of #NBS within the agricultural sector in Africa.
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Nature-based solutions (NbS) are actions that address societal challenges by protecting, sustainably managing, and restoring natural and modified ecosystems. They aim to tackle major issues such as climate change, disaster risk reduction, food and water security, biodiversity loss, and human health while simultaneously benefiting both people and nature. These solutions leverage natural processes and biodiversity to resolve various socio-environmental issues. Overall, NbS represent a holistic approach to environmental management that promotes human well-being and ecological health.
The transformation of food and agricultural systems is a critical nexus issue. New systems of food and agricultural production are urgently needed to replace current business-as-usual scenarios, not only to safeguard biodiversity but also food security and nutrition, land health and local livelihoods.
Unsustainable agricultural practices are the leading driver of biodiversity loss globally and a key contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In turn food and agricultural systems are threatened by climate change and the decline in nature and ecosystems.
3.83 billion people globally depend on food and agriculture for their livelihoods and agriculture is the largest source of income for poor, rural households. With global food production predicted to increase as much as 70% over the next 25 years, the need for transformed food and agricultural systems is central to our future.
Check out Sustainable agriculture and Nature-based Solutions Compendium