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Dr. Gisella S. Cruz-García
DAPA
g.s.cruz@cgiar.org
ASSETS: Ecosystem services, food security and
nutritional health in the forest-agriculture interface

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Ecosystem services
• Supporting: nutrient cycling, soil formation
• Regulating: climate, flood, disease regulation
• Provisioning: food, timber, fodder, fuel
• Cultural: spiritual, aesthetic, recreational
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005

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Human dimensions
of ecosystem services
• Ecosystem services offer benefits to the rural poor:
• direct and indirect
• material and non-material
• monetary and non-monetary
• These benefits are reflected in human wellbeing.

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Food security
framework
• Availability: having a supply of enough quality food
• Access: having adequate economic resources and/or physical access
or entitlements to acquire food
• Utilization: the food consumed is offering then energy and all
nutrients required for a healthy life (including dietary diversity)
• Stability: availability, access and utilization are satisfied throughout
the year and at all times
(FAO 1996)

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ASSETS Project
“Managing ecosystem services for food security and the
nutritional health of the rural poor at the
forest-agriculture interface”
• Multi-institutional collaboration part of ESPA Initiative.
• Themes:
1. Linkages between food security, nutritional health and ES
2. Crises and tipping points involving past, current and future
interactions between food security and ES
3. Science – policy interface

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UK:
• University of Southampton (PI Poppy)
• University of Dundee
USA:
• Conservation International
Spain:
• Basque Centre for Climate Change
Colombia:
• CIAT
• Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Peru
• Instituto de Investigación de la Amazonia Peruana - IIAP
Malawi:
• Chancellor College (Co-PI Chiotha)
• LEAD Southern and Eastern Africa plus Ministry of Forestry, Forest Research
Institute of Malawi
• Rhodes University South Africa
The team

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Study sites: Colombia, Peru and Malawi

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Focus group – ES matrix rating
Men
Puerto Cordoba
Focus group – ES matrix rating
Women
Comeyafú

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Thank you for your attention
g.s.cruz@cgiar.org