Priorities for Public Sector Research on Food Security and Natural Resources, Review 2, Sara Scherr, Ecoagriculture Partners on April 12, 2013 at the Food Security Futures Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

1. Food Security and Sustainable Resource Use:
Comments
Sara J. Scherr, President, EcoAgriculture Partners
Food Security Futures: Research Priorities for the 21st Century
Dublin, Ireland – 11-12 April 2013

2. Securing Food Supply in the 21st Century:
Beyond Field-Scale Productivity

3. More than Food: Societal Demands from
Agricultural Landscapes

4. Beyond Resource Use Efficiency:
Negotiating Whole Landscape System Efficiency

5. From Diagnosis to Solutions:
Pathways to Transform Agriculture

6. An Explosion of Innovation on the Ground

7. www.landscapes.ecoagriculture.org

8. Ongoing Integrated Agriculture Landscape Initiatives
Latin America & Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa
# Integrated Landscape 104 87
Initiatives Identified
# Countries Represented 21 33
Most Common Motivations Biodiversity Conservation, Biodiversity and Natural
for Stakeholder Reducing Natural Resource Resource Conservation
Collaboration Degradation
Average # Stakeholders 11 9+
Involved in Initiative (farmers, local government, (local/district government,
(primary stakeholders) NGOs) NGOs, producer groups)
Core Investment Domains Institutional planning & Institutional planning &
coordination, Agricultural coordination; Conservation;
production, Conservation & Agricultural production
Livelihoods
Milder, et al. Unpublished Data

9. Agroecological Practices that Generate Both High Yields and
Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem Conservation Holistic Organic Precision System of
Service Agriculture Grazing Agriculture Agriculture Rice
Intensification
Number of studies that indicate positive, neutral or negative outcomes for select system & service combinations.
+ = - + = - + = - + = - + = -
Pest 1 2 4 7 6
Control
Soil Fertility 14 2 4 4 3 3 55 8 1 1 12 2 1
& Structure
Nutrient 6 1 2 2 1 1 23 39 5 12 2
Cycling
Wild 3 11 23 1 2
Biodiversity
Erosion 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Control
H20 qual. & 16 2 2 1 1 9 52 2
quant.
Garbach, et al. 2012. ‘An Assessment of the Multi-Functionality of
total # of studies reviewed = 219 Agroecological Intensification.’ EcoAgriculture Partners: Washington, DC.

10. Restoring Ecosystem Function in Agricultural Landscapes

11. Farmers Mobilizing for Land Stewardship,
Production and Market Access

12. Working
Together:
Overcoming
Fragmentation
and Institutional
Silos

13. 1) Promote Adoption of Known Best Practices
(short-term)

14. 2) Support Initiatives Advancing Multi-Objective
Farms and Landscapes (medium-term)

15. 3) Focus Advanced Science on Multi-
Functional Systems (long-term)

16. Thank you
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17. Thank You!
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