ABSTRACT
There is broad consensus that global sustainability crises such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and soil degradation are already causing severe negative impacts on people and the planet that will worsen over time. Addressing these complex, interrelated issues is not straightforward. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made it clear that tackling climate change will require rapid and unprecedented changes across all sectors of society (IPCC, 2018) and that “the move towards climate-resilient societies requires transformational or deep systemic change” (Pathak et al., 2022). The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework plainly articulates the urgent need to reduce threats to biodiversity, for example, by phasing out harmful subsidies and enhancing incentives for the sustainable use of biodiversity (CBD COP-15, 2022). The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warns that rapidly degrading soils arising from intensive agricultural practices pose an immense threat to food security and ecosystems around the world (FAO, 2022).
