Evaluating the local nexus between human development (HD) and environmental sustainability (ES) can guide and inform policy and planning. This evaluation is particularly relevant in tropical countries, characterised by interactions among high biodiversity, monetary poverty, social inequalities, and environmental degradation. The aim of this paper is to analyse the HD–ES nexus across various municipalities in Colombia, situatin...

Governments are updating national strategies to meet global goals on biodiversity, climate change and food systems proposed in the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework and agreed at the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP26) and Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). This represents a unique and crucial opportunity to integrate and accelerate food system actions to tackle interconnected global challenges. In...

Few longitudinal studies link agricultural biodiversity, land use and food access in rural landscapes. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that, in a context of economic change, cash crop expansion is associated with deforestation, reduced agrobiodiversity and changes in food access. For this purpose, we analysed data collected from the same 53 upland and floodplain mestizo households in Ucayali, Peru, in 2000 and 2015. We f...