Ecosystems for water and food security

Publication Date: 2011

Against the current challenges to enhance food security worldwide, this report aims at illustrating the importance of healthy ecosystems for the provisioning of key services that contribute to food security. Such ecosystem services are water provisioning and food production. In this regard the publication provides an overview of the linkages between ecosystems, water, and food security. It further explores how to manage ecosystems for a variety of ecosystem services such as provisioning of water and food, and how to manage ecosystems in a sustainable way so they can substantially contribute to enhancing current and future food security.