In the run-up to the 18th Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (27 September – 1 October 2021), the special event on “Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework” will bring together delegates and stakeholders to discuss the role of biodiversity...

Pastoralism is a livestock-keeping system that specializes in taking advantage of environmental variability, managing grazing itineraries at a variety of scales so that livestock feed better than without a herder”. Elaborating on this definition, this document explains how pastoralism, by farming with nature, can address the global challenge of...

Like agriculture and climate change, agriculture and biodiversity, and hence food security, are interconnected in both a negative and a positive sense. In this article, our author describes what we know about the links, what role the agricultural sectors have to play in the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity,...

Beyond biopiracy, national sovereignty is reaching its limits in the era of open-source databases. Three decades ago, when governments were just about to conclude negotiations of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, few of them might have anticipated the heated debates currently evolving around the “green gold” or rather the...

Global Leaders and experts exchange dialogue on how we can achieve an ambitious Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework “The need to mainstream biodiversity across the food and agricultural sectors is key in FAO’s vision for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life and the core of our new...