Rooted: Agriculture Rooted in Biodiversity

Goodman, Peter; Ronchi, Loraine; Brandon, Katrina

Rooted: Agriculture Rooted in Biodiversity

Autores

Goodman, Peter

Ronchi, Loraine

Brandon, Katrina

Editor

Washington, DC: World Bank

Descripción

The objective of the report is to raise countries’ understanding of biodiversity’s importance for agriculture and provide the knowledge, policy tools, and investment options to increase biodiversity to meet the growing demand for food and provide healthy diets. The information in this report is a foundation for supporting countries to reform agricultural policies and investments for conservation, restoration, and scaling up the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices for biodiversity. This will also support countries in meeting COP 15 commitments. Chapter 1 describes how biodiversity provides a foundation for the ecosystem services that support agriculture and explains why biodiversity in both natural and agricultural landscapes must be protected to support agricultural productivity and resilience, locally and globally, for decades to come. Chapter 2 draws on recently published studies on the spatial distribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services to map the threat that agricultural development and climate change pose to biodiversity and ecosystem services in natural and semi-natural areas. Chapter 3 delineates the pathways through which unsustainable agricultural practices drive biodiversity loss, and in turn, the loss of ecosystem services supporting agriculture across wide spatial and temporal scales. Chapter 4 identifies sustainable agricultural practices that mitigate agricultural-driven biodiversity loss and may even improve biodiversity over time. Chapter 5 presents evidence on the relationship between agricultural support and the number of threatened species and discusses the types of agricultural support that harm or benefits biodiversity. Chapter 6 provides recommendations on policy and investment.