WEBINAR: Mainstreaming Biodiversity-Sensitive Agriculture for Sustainable Food Systems

30 September 2021. Mainstreaming Biodiversity-Sensitive Agriculture for Sustainable Food Systems

You can watch the webinar here: https://bit.ly/9-30-Recording
Twitter thread: https://bit.ly/2WCqJKk

FAO’s State of the World Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture Report (2019) and other global assessments present worrying evidence that the biodiversity that underpins our food systems is rapidly disappearing by the day – putting the future of our food, livelihoods, health, and environment under severe threat. Once lost, species and biodiversity for food and agriculture cannot be recovered. Yet there are signs of hope in many countries around the world. In fact, biodiversity-friendly practices are on the rise, yet these efforts need to be scaled up and better coordinated.

This high-level webinar examined what actions and policies are needed to bring about a world where agriculture and food systems reduce their negative impacts on and make the best use of the potential of biological diversity and ecosystems while contributing to biodiversity restoration, food and nutrition security, and sustainable livelihoods.

Welcome

• Jocelyn Brown Hall, Director, FAO North America
• Jean-François Soussana, Vice President for International Affairs, INRAE

Keynote

• Thierry Caquet, Scientific Director for the Environment, INRAE - https://bit.ly/3uslTvM
• Eduardo Mansur, Director, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO - https://bit.ly/3iuWQ6G

Panel

• Frederic Castell, Senior Technical Advisor, FAO
• Marc Deconchat, Research Director and Director of the BIOSEFAIR Meta-program, INRAE
• Saswati Bora, Director of Regenerative Food Systems, TNC - https://bit.ly/3FgV6HJ

Resources:

• Foodscapes for People and Nature - Mapping the diversity of food production around the world to inform food systems transformation
• FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors

Related:

4 October 2021. European Parliament Plenary in Strasbourg, MEPs debated and voted on the report on the role of development policy in the response to biodiversity loss in developing countries. (23 p)

• Find out more about the report here: https://t.co/kKjtgUwn63 
• streaming @ 5pm https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/plenary-session_20211004-0900-PLENARY_vd