Terry Sunderland presented at Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn 2020 at the event themed ‘Contribution of Forests, Trees and Agroforestry to sustainable Food Security and Nutrition in a time of crisis’.
The key highlights of the talk were-
- Diverse forest and tree-based production systems offer advantages over monocropping systems because of their adaptability and resilience.
- There are a multitude of ecosystem services provided by forests and trees that simultaneously support food production, nutrition, sustainability and environmental and human health.
- Managing landscapes on a multi-functional basis that combine food production, biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem services can contribute to food and nutritional security
- Forests and trees alone will not achieve global food security, but can play a major role: discourse has started to change