{"id":23845,"date":"2021-04-26T17:52:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/?p=23845"},"modified":"2024-05-17T01:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:26:00","slug":"new-study-in-nature-sustainability-shows-72-of-the-worlds-population-lacks-resource-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/2021\/04\/26\/new-study-in-nature-sustainability-shows-72-of-the-worlds-population-lacks-resource-security\/","title":{"rendered":"New study in Nature Sustainability shows 72% of the world\u2019s population lacks resource security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 26, 2021 (Oakland, CA) &#8211; <\/strong>Latest data show that 72% of people around the world live in countries with both natural resource deficits and below world-average income, according to a new study led by Global Footprint Network president Mathis Wackernagel and <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/s41893-021-00708-4\">published today in Nature Sustainability<\/a>. Based on latest available UN data (2017), these findings highlight the vulnerability of national economies exposed to biological resource constraints and may explain how such countries end up in ecological poverty traps.<\/p>\n<p>To maintain progress and eradicate poverty, countries need either sufficient biological resources within their country to match their ecological footprint, or money to competitively buy what they need on markets abroad. When neither of these two conditions are met, countries may end up in an ecological poverty trap \u2014 a situation in which the country\u2019s biological resources are insufficient to provide enough food, fibres, building materials and CO<sub>2<\/sub> sequestration, among other factors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat worries us even more is the fact that most development strategies across the world are not adequately addressing this vast resource insecurity, thereby becoming severely anti-poor,\u201d said Mathis Wackernagel. \u201cThe tragedy is that many strategies exist to improve resource security, but they are not being employed at scale in any country\u2014even though they are the only true value-generating opportunities, as all other resource-depleting activities are ultimately destroying wealth and opportunities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis Wackernagel and colleagues compared and classified countries based on their relative gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and ecological deficit (the amount of biological resources they consume in excess of what their own ecosystems can renew) between 1980 and 2017, to analyse the exposure of national economies to resource constraints. The authors found that the percentage of the world\u2019s population living in a country with both a deficit in biological resources and below-world-average income went from 57% in 1980 to 72% in 2017. In addition, the worldwide ecological deficit went from 19% to 73% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The authors emphasize strategies exist to enable lasting development, that both advances human development and resource security. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overshootday.org\/solutions\/\">They include<\/a>: the way we build and manage our cities, how we power them, how we feed ourselves, and how many we are. Where financial budgets are scarce, the question is how existing budgets are used to favour solutions that avoid, rather than increase, the likelihood of sliding towards an ecological poverty trap. Once the threshold has been crossed, exiting the trap in the absence of biological and financial resources becomes close to impossible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>##########<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\">Media Contact<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:media@footprintnetwork.org\"><strong>media@footprintnetwork.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/s41893-021-00708-4\">The Importance of Resource Security for Poverty Eradication<\/a>, <em>Nature Sustainability<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nature_gdp_bc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nature_gdp_bc.png 574w, https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nature_gdp_bc-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/double-resource-challenge-logo-650.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 2021 (Oakland, CA) &#8211; Latest data show that 72% of people around the world live in countries with both natural resource deficits and below world-average income, according to a new study led by Global Footprint Network president Mathis Wackernagel and published today in Nature Sustainability. 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