Ecologists & economists join forces at summit: London workshop tackles the big ecological questions facing UK agriculture

摘要

How can public policy tackle the need to create sustainable agriculture in the UK, given such complex issues surround the issue, such as food security, volatile food commodity markets and global climate change? Add to that concern over the beneficialprocesses and resources that farmland ecosystems provide - known as ecosystem services - and you have an extremely complex problem. Yet this was the issue of the day for over 60 experts in both ecology and economics at a May workshop in London hosted bythe Natural Capital Initiative (in partnership with York Environmental Sustainability Institute, UK Network of Environmental Economists, Valuing Nature Network and GardnerLoboAssociates).