The regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa : summary for policymakers

E. Archer (1) , L. Dziba (2) , K.J. Mulongoy , M.A. Maoela (3) , M. Walters (4) , R.O. Biggs (5) , Marie-Christine Cormier Salem (6, 7) , F. Declerck (8) , M.C. Diaw (9) , A.E. Dunham (10) , P. Failler (11) , C. Gordon (12) , K.A. Harhash (13) , R. Kasisi (14) , F. Kizito (15) , W. Nyingi (16) , N. Oguge (17) , B. Osman-Elasha (18) , L.C. Stringer (19) , Luis Tito de Morais (7, 20) , A. Assogbadjo (21) , B.N. Egoh (22) , M.W. Halmy (23) , K. Heubach (24) , A. Mensah (12) , L. Pereira (25) , N. Sitas (3)

1 University of Pretoria [South Africa]
2 South African National Parks (SANParks)
3 CSRI - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [South Africa]
4 CSIR - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research [Pretoria]
5 Stellenbosch University
6 PALOC - Patrimoines locaux, Environnement et Globalisation
7 IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
8 Bioversity International [Montpellier]
9 AMFN - African Model Forests Network
10 Rice University [Houston]
11 University of Portsmouth
12 University of Ghana
13 Biodiversity Central Department, Ministry of Environment
14 UdeM - Université de Montréal
15 CIAT - International Center for Tropical Agriculture [Colombie]
16 NMK - National Museums of Kenya
17 UoN - University of Nairobi
18 BAD - Banque africaine de développement / African Development Bank
19 University of Leeds
20 LEMAR - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR)
21 UAC - Université d’Abomey-Calavi = University of Abomey Calavi
22 UKZN - University of KwaZulu-Natal [Durban, Afrique du Sud]
23 Alexandria University [Alexandrie]
24 PalmenGarten - Palmengarten der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
25 GEO - Group on Earth Observations

The Regional Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Africa produced by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides a critical analysis of the state of knowledge regarding the importance, status, and trends of biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people. The assessment analyses the direct and underlying causes for the observed changes in biodiversity and in nature’s contributions to people, and the impact that these changes have on the quality of life of people. The assessment, finally, identifies a mix of governance options, policies and management practices that are currently available to reduce the loss of biodiversity and of nature’s contributions to people in that region.The assessment addresses terrestrial, freshwater, and coastal biodiversity and covers current status and trends, going back in time several decades, and future projections, with a focus on the 2020-2050 period.The present document, the Summary for Policymakers of the Assessment Report, was approved by the sixth session of the Plenary of IPBES (Medellín, Colombia, 18-24 March 2018). It is based on a set of chapters which were accepted at this same Plenary session. The chapters are available as document IPBES/6/INF/3/Rev.1 (www.ipbes.net).

Mots clés: Africa; Biodiversity; OS

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Biodiversité et Ecologie

E. Archer, L. Dziba, K.J. Mulongoy, M.A. Maoela, M. Walters, et al.. The regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Africa : summary for policymakers. IPBES, 49 p. [en ligne], 2018, 978-3-947851-00-3. ⟨hal-02333968⟩