Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 19;19(6):3652. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19063652.
The prevalence and severity of natural hazards pose a serious risk to food systems, undermining their function to provide food security and improved nutrition. The impact of such events is extensive, and the level of damage and recovery significantly depend on ecosystem services, including their own resilience capacity. This paper provides evidence that the role, value, and utilization of local ecosystem services are essential for food system resilience and for food security in parts of the world where high vulnerability and lack of coping capacity exist to combat climate change. Patterns of ecosystem services-based strategies were revealed that can be introduced to cope and adapt to climate-related natural hazards at the smallholder food system level. The study suggests that food system diversification, technological innovations and nature-based practices, and traditional and indigenous knowledge operationalized across the food system components have a potential for sustaining smallholder resilience in the face of natural hazards.
自然灾害的发生频率和严重程度对食物系统构成严重威胁，破坏了食物系统提供粮食安全和改善营养的功能。此类事件的影响范围广泛，其破坏程度和恢复程度在很大程度上取决于生态系统服务，包括其自身的恢复能力。本文提供的证据表明，地方生态系统服务的作用、价值和利用对于粮食系统的恢复力以及世界上那些在应对气候变化方面脆弱性高且应对能力不足的地区的粮食安全至关重要。本研究揭示了基于生态系统服务的策略模式，这些策略模式可以被引入到小规模粮食系统层面，以应对和适应与气候有关的自然灾害。研究表明，粮食系统多样化、技术创新和基于自然的实践，以及在整个粮食系统组成部分中运作的传统和土著知识，有可能在面对自然灾害时维持小规模农户的恢复力。
