Biodiversity Conservation, a Crucial Step Towards Food and Nutritional Security, Food Justice and Climate Change Resilience in Africa.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity conservation has been identified as an important climate change mitigation tool. Healthy ecosystems act as natural carbon sinks while also strengthening resilience, making them essential for climate change adaptation. Climate change effects have led to various negative impacts, including biodiversity loss and food insecurity. The loss of forest biodiversity threatens vital wild fruits and vegetables that sustain rural communities, disrupting natural food sources and constituting a form of social injustice for poor, vulnerable, and previously marginalised groups in rural and semi-urban communities. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between previous biodiversity conservation outcomes, ecosystem services, highly utilised wild vegetables and fruits, food

SUBMITTER: Fajinmi OO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12430226 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature