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Setting the Stage

Coordinating Lead Authors:
Molly Anderson (USA), Les Firbank (UK)

Lead Authors:
Sergey Alexanian (Russia), Dorota Metera (Poland), Tanja Schuler (Germany)

Review Editors:
Denis Ebodaghe (USA), Yuriy Nesterov (Ukraine)

Key Messages

1.1 Scope and Structure 3
  1.1.1 Geographic scope of NAE 3
  1.1.2 Structure of the report 3
    1.1.2.1 Interface with Global Assessment and other Sub-Global Assessments 3
    1.1.2.2 Thematic issues 3
  1.1.3 Conceptual framework 4
    1.1.3.1 Conceptual diagram 4
    1.1.3.2 Drivers of change 4
    1.1.3.3 AKST dynamics 4
1.2 Agriculture, Development and Sustainability Goals 5
  1.2.1 Eradicating hunger and food insecurity; providing adequate amounts of healthy, safe food; and improving human health 5
  1.2.2 Reducing extreme poverty, improving livelihoods and creating rural employment 6
  1.2.3 Promoting equity across gender and social gaps 7
  1.2.4 Enhancing environmental quality 8
1.3 Significance of NAE in the Generation, Use and Control of AKST 8
  1.3.1 Importance within the region 8
    1.3.1.1 Impacts on development and sustainability goals 8
    1.3.1.2 Economic 8
    1.3.1.3 Sociocultural 9
    1.3.1.4 Environmental 9
  1.3.2 Importance to the rest of the world 9
    1.3.2.1 Impacts on development and sustainability goals 9
    1.3.2.2 Export of AKST, other forms of KST and concepts of development 9
    1.3.2.3 NAE's footprint 10
    1.3.2.4 Wealth and political power 10
1.4 Description of the Region 10
  1.4.1 Social, political and economic development 10
    1.4.1.1 Prior to 1945 10
    1.4.1.2 After 1945 11
  1.4.2 Natural resources and their exploitation 12
    1.4.2.1 Freshwater 13
    1.4.2.2 Energy 13
    1.4.2.3 Fisheries 13
    1.4.2.4 Marginal lands 13
    1.4.2.5 Forests 13
  1.4.3 Agrifood systems 14
    1.4.3.1 The development of agrifood systems to 1945 14
    1.4.3.2 Agrifood systems post 1945 14
    1.4.3.3 The development of policy 16
1.5 Challenges for AKST 16