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Food security

Food security in Te Moanaui Oceania faces challenges due to various factors including climate change impacts, limited arable land, and dependence on imported food. Changing weather patterns affect agricultural productivity, threatening crop yields and food availability. Climate change also greatly impacts marine food sources. Reliance on imports makes food supply vulnerable to disruptions and price fluctuations. The following nature-based solutions may be useful to enhance food security.

Backyard gardens
Bio-accretion / mineral accretion
Bioremediation / phytoremediation:
soil
Bioremediation / phytoremediation: water
Bioswales / swales
Botanical gardens
Community gardens
Companion planting /
intercropping
Constructed reefs / living break
waters
Container gardens
Coral reseeding
Customary resource management
Ecosystem-based management
Edible home garden
Indoor (food) gardens / greenhouses
Insect / bee hotels and nesting
boxes
Mangrove restoration
Living machines
Mātauranga Māori values driven management
Medicinal gardens
Mulch
Permaculture
Pollinator pathways
Rainwater gardens
Rainwater harvesting
Revegetation / renaturing
Slow-forming terraces
Tara bandu (management / justice)
Traditional calendars
Urban agriculture
Urban beehives
Urban composting
Urban orchards / edible
landscapes
Vegetation-integrated buildings
Vertical farms
Waffle gardens
Water-caused erosion prevention
Wind-caused erosion
prevention
Xeriscaping
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