This publication is a background report to the IFAD Rural Development Report 2021 on Food System Transformations. The IFAD report is published in preparation of the UN Food System Summit, taking place…
The WAVES partnership supports countries with implementing Natural Capital Accounting (NCA). At the request of the WAVES partnership, PBL has evaluated how NCA can support a ‘green’ recovery from the…
More efficient phosphorus use can avoid cropland expansion
Global projections indicate that approximately 500 Mha of new arable land will be required to meet crop demand by 2050. Applying a dynamic phosphorus (P) pool simulator under different socioeconomic…
Urbanisation as driver of food system transformation and opportunities for rural livelihoods
Urbanisation is altering food systems, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. These changes can affect rural livelihoods in positive and negative ways. In this article, the authors…
Climate change measures and sustainable development goals
Many measures to mitigate climate change (SDG 13) have an impact on achieving other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), often positive, but sometimes negative. This study shows how twenty promising…
Effectively empowering: a different look at bolstering the effectiveness of global environmental assessments
Global environmental assessments are widely considered to play a prominent role in environmental governance. However, they are also criticised for a lack of effectiveness in informing policy and…
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessment scenarios
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, new methods are needed…
Climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems are linked and all have devastating consequences for our economic and social stability, health and human well-being. Working with nature…
Policy recommendations for a resource-efficient and low-carbon Europe from the viewpoint of the nexus between water, land, energy, food and climate
The European Green Deal is ambitious and arouses many conflicts of interest. One of the challenges is achieving coherence between policies for water, land, energy, food and climate (‘WLEFC nexus’)…
Over the course of 2020, a global narrative for green recovery has emerged. This narrative combines the need to address the pressing short-term socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with the…
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