Farming with Biodiversity: Towards nature-positive production at scale
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Farming with Biodiversity: Towards nature-positive production at scale" presents the food production conditions that will help us secure a nature-positive world by 2030, specifically exploring the merits of agroecological approaches.
This new WWF report outlines changes that are needed to create food systems that support rather than exploit nature, with a focus on agricultural production systems.he report is part of WWF's contribution to boosting nature-positive production at scale (Action Track 3 of the UN Food Systems Summit) and advancing agroecological approaches as proposed in the WWF Kunming Plan for Nature and People for the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). It will also feed into the advocacy for the UNFCCC 26 (Climate CoP).
The report is a key milestone in building external communications on the notion that nature positive production of food can and must be part of the solution for bending the curve of biodiversity loss.
Our food systems are putting an impossible strain on nature and failing to nourish all people on the planet. Transforming our food systems is therefore key to bending the curve of biodiversity loss and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The challenge ahead is to improve our food production systems without exceeding the carrying capacity of ecosystems and the planet to meet the food and nutrition needs of current and future generations. This requires a paradigm shift from maximizing production at the expense of nature to farming with biodiversity to achieve nature-positive production at scale.
In landscapes that consist predominantly or to a large extent of intact natural ecosystems, the first priority should be to protect the remaining natural habitat, including indigenous territories, from conversion to agriculture. Land that is used to produce food needs to be managed in such a way that agriculture enhances the richness and abundance of biodiversity and ecosystem functions, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and enhances resilience to climate change. Abandoned or degraded agricultural land needs to be restored to natural habitat or rehabilitated to support sustainable
food production.
This new WWF report outlines changes that are needed to create food systems that support rather than exploit nature, with a focus on agricultural production systems.he report is part of WWF's contribution to boosting nature-positive production at scale (Action Track 3 of the UN Food Systems Summit) and advancing agroecological approaches as proposed in the WWF Kunming Plan for Nature and People for the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). It will also feed into the advocacy for the UNFCCC 26 (Climate CoP).
The report is a key milestone in building external communications on the notion that nature positive production of food can and must be part of the solution for bending the curve of biodiversity loss.
Our food systems are putting an impossible strain on nature and failing to nourish all people on the planet. Transforming our food systems is therefore key to bending the curve of biodiversity loss and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The challenge ahead is to improve our food production systems without exceeding the carrying capacity of ecosystems and the planet to meet the food and nutrition needs of current and future generations. This requires a paradigm shift from maximizing production at the expense of nature to farming with biodiversity to achieve nature-positive production at scale.
In landscapes that consist predominantly or to a large extent of intact natural ecosystems, the first priority should be to protect the remaining natural habitat, including indigenous territories, from conversion to agriculture. Land that is used to produce food needs to be managed in such a way that agriculture enhances the richness and abundance of biodiversity and ecosystem functions, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and enhances resilience to climate change. Abandoned or degraded agricultural land needs to be restored to natural habitat or rehabilitated to support sustainable
food production.
Keywords
biodiversity
agroecology
food production
food systems
ecosystems restoration
SDGs targets
nature-based solutions
case studies