Sustainable food systems

Exploring the Links: Human Well-Being, Poverty and Ecosystem Services

This publication presents the conceptual framework on poverty and ecosystems. The paper sets out to achieve three objectives. The first objective is to demonstrate how human well-being is dependent on ecosystems and ecosystem services. The second objective is to identify barriers and drivers that prevent the poor from using these ecosystem services to improve their well-being, thereby perpetuating poverty. And the third objective is to identify policy response options to remove the barriers, re-design or even introduce new intervention strategies to allow the poor to improve their well-being through an ecosystem approach.

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