Ecosystem-based adaptation can support food security

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Publication Date: 2013

This article explores a number of projects in Africa which demonstrate the great potential of ecosystem-based approaches to harness multiple ecosystem services, ultimately helping to alleviate food crises. A project to restore mangroves in Mozambique, for example, not only provided carbon storage and coastal protection, contributing to both climate change mitigation and adaptation, but also improved fish breeding grounds, increasing food supply to the local community. This publication was included in Science for Environment Policy, published by the European Commission's DG Environment and edited by the Science Communication Unit (SCU), The University of the West of England.