FAO and INRAE Webinar: Mainstreaming Biodiversity-Sensitive Agriculture

Achieving food security and nutrition for all depends on biodiversity, which generates multiple livelihood benefits. Biodiversity and ecosystem services are essential for sustainable agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries. It also makes production systems and livelihoods more resilient to economic, social and environmental shocks and stresses, including the mounting effects of climate change.

Despite global efforts spanning several decades, biodiversity continues to be eroded at an alarming pace. But there are signs of hope in many countries around the world. In fact, biodiversity-friendly practices are on the rise, yet these efforts need to be intensified, vastly scaled up and better coordinated. The knowledge, technologies and practices already exist that can make agriculture and the broader food system more biodiversity friendly.

Now, actions and policies are needed to bring about a world where agriculture and food systems reduce their negative impacts on, and make the best use of the potential of biological diversity and ecosystems, and contribute to the conservation, sustainable use, management and restoration of biodiversity, ensuring food security and nutrition for present and future generations and supporting livelihoods.