Agriculture depends on biodiversity, and halting its decline is critical to transforming agriculture to feed the world. Healthy ecosystems rely on biodiversity to provide the ecosystem services that are the bedrock for agriculture. These services include maintaining soil health; pollination; regulating water quality and flows, disease, climate and natural hazards; and “maintaining options”—the benefits that biodiversity provides to future generations.
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.
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