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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Assessing the land resource–food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals
Science Advances, Volume 2, No. 9, Article e1501499, Year 2016
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The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for a comprehensive new approach to development rooted in planetary boundaries, equity, and inclusivity. The wide scope of the SDGs will necessitate unprecedented integration of siloed policy portfolios to work at international, regional, and national levels toward multiple goals and mitigate the conflicts that arise from competing resource demands. In this analysis, we adopt a comprehensive modeling approach to understand how coherent policy combinations can manage trade-offs among environmental conservation initiatives and food prices. Our scenario results indicate that SDG strategies constructed around Sustainable Consumption and Production policies can minimize problem-shifting, which has long placed global development and conservation agendas at odds. We conclude that Sustainable Consumption and Production policies (goal 12) are most effective at minimizing trade-offs and argue for their centrality to the formulation of coherent SDG strategies. We also find that alternative socioeconomic futures—mainly, population and economic growth pathways—generate smaller impacts on the eventual achievement of land resource–related SDGs than do resource-use and management policies. We expect that this and future systems analyses will allow policymakers to negotiate trade-offs and exploit synergies as they assemble sustainable development strategies equal in scope to the ambition of the SDGs. © 2016 The Authors.
Authors & Co-Authors
Obersteiner, Michael H.
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Frank, Stefan
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Havlik, Petr
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Cantele, Matthew P.
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Liu, Junguo
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
China, Shenzhen
Southern University of Science and Technology
Palazzo, Amanda
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Herrero, Mario
Australia, Canberra
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lu, Yonglong
China, Beijing
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mosnier, Aline
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Valin, Hugo
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Riahi, Keywan
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Kraxner, Florian
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Fritz, Steffen
Austria, Laxenburg
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
Van Vuuren, Detlef P.
Netherlands, The Hague
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Netherlands, Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
Statistics
Citations: 154
Authors: 14
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1126/sciadv.1501499
ISSN:
23752548
Research Areas
Food Security
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study