FAO hosted a side event, Biodiversity Mainstreaming Across Agricultural Sectors, during the Global Environment Facility (GEF) 54th Council Meeting, 24-26 June 2018, Da Nang, Viet Nam. The event aimed to raise awareness about the recently launched Biodiversity Mainstreaming Platform – which aims to improve collaboration between sectors, identify synergies, align...

Following the launch of the Biodiversity Mainstreaming Platform in 2017, FAO, together with Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), organized a Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Biodiversity Mainstreaming across Agricultural Sectors. This informal meeting aimed to bring together ministers, experts and stakeholders across agriculture, forestry, fisheries and environmental sectors. Discussions aimed to take...

FAO’s Incentives for Ecosystem Services (IES) project provided training on IES together with partners from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), provided training in support of the GEF-Fostering Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa – An Integrated Approach Programme (IAP) in Nairobi, Kenya,...

The Second International Symposium on Agroecology: Scaling up Agroecology to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was held in Rome, Italy 3-5 April 2018. The Symposium aimed to compliment on-going national and regional agroecology initiatives to integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services in agriculture. Challenges and opportunities to scale up agroecology were...

A workshop to mainstream agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services in agriculture was held in Naivasha, Kenya 18-21 March 2018. The workshop aimed to develop an understanding of policy needs for mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services into agriculture. This included identification of existing initiatives and interventions, key gaps and challenges, the use of...