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Ecosystem-Based Approach for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Addressing Food Security and Nutrition

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

Definition

The ecosystem-based approach (EBA) is a strategy for the integrated management of land, water, and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way. It aims to restore or strengthen the self-sustaining capacity of human-natural relationships (Richter et al. 2015) and represents a framework of action under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Introduction

The burgeoning world population is expected to rise from 7.6 to 9.8 billion by 2050. This will significantly increase the demands for food and land for housing and settlement with their corollary on land degradation, biodiversity habitat loss, and an increase in waste production (Hazell and Wood 2008; Godfray et al. 2010; Seto et al. 2012). In addition, studies have shown that 795 millions of people were still suffering from hunger in 2017 even though the actual world food production was beyond the calorific requirement of its population (FAO et al. 2015). These people are...

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  1. Faculty of Agronomic sciences, University of Diffa, Diffa, Niger

    Salamatou Abdourahamane Illiassou

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    Vincent Onguso Oeba

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Abdourahamane Illiassou, S., Oeba, V.O. (2019). Ecosystem-Based Approach for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Addressing Food Security and Nutrition. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_65-1

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