Trade-offs and synergies between sustainable food production and other critical ecosystem services for women and men in the changing and dynamic Barotse Floodplain, ZambiaNatalia Estrada-CarmonaBioversity International

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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Searchinger et al., (2015). High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa’s wet savannahs to cropland. Nature Climate Change, 5(May). doi:10.1038/nclimate2584

Cattle in the floodplain during the dry season

Temporal villages (fisherman)

Reeds to make mats

Cropping with high risk of floods

Fishing

Wildlife habitat

Lealui

Nalitoya

Mapungu

Package of research questions and methods

To what extent do diets meet nutrient requirements of women and children in different seasons?

Food Consumption – CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems Value Chain Survey, adults

Check out our recently-published map with the land types http://arcg.is/1Gz92wx

How and why is the landscape used by # groups for their diets?

Does matter where food is produced? Trade-offs?

Materials for construction Habitat for wildlife

Cattle grazing

Fish

Water for agriculture

Droughts/Floods control

Pest control

Mulapo

Sitapa

Land conversion

Mulapo

Exploring options and evaluation of interventions and tradeoffs and synergies

What is the potential of the landscape to improve diets?

What are environmental and economics cost and benefits of different options?

Area (%) Crop or Crop rotation

12 Sorghum61 Eggplant local 0 Watermelon

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Sweet potato/Tomato/Cabbage/Rape/Groundnuts

1 Cassava/Cowpeas26 Maize/Pumpkin/Rice

How can options go to scale?Learn more: http://bit.ly/BarotseMap

Discussion and take-away messagesOur goal is to find agriculture-nutrition pathways for healthy communities and landscapes through:

• Trade-offs, synergies and scenarios analysis with communities

• Integrating ecosystem services, food systems and nutrition variables in multi-objective landscape and farming models

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