In Brief Global agriculture aims to resolve trade-offs between food production and natural resources. We build on the concept of ecosystem services and analyse trade-offs between food and ecological security in Punjab, India, where agriculture adopted high input farming in 1960s. We then offer solutions by developing some alternative scenarios in order to resolve trade-offs. […]
Author Archives: Harpinder Sandhu
Harpinder Sandhu obtained a PhD in Agroecology from Lincoln University New Zealand. His research involves integration of environmental economics and ecology for understanding of the complex socio-ecological and economic dimensions of ecosystem services. Currently, Harpinder is working as an academic at Flinders University in Australia. Harpinder was selected by the United Nations Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services as an expert and lead author for a global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services. He has been nominated to the Advisory Panel on Agroecology for the Asia-Pacific region by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and he is leading the Global Sectoral Group on Agro-ecosystems at the Ecosystem Services Partnership to advance the science and management of ecosystem services in agriculture.
