- The NGOs Iles de Paix, SOS-Faim and Autre Terre launched a study on the limitations of land sparing for the environment and for food security and nutrition.
- FAO, Biovision and the Agroecology Coalition published a policy brief on the synergies between agroecology and conservation Communities.
Recording available here
Presentations:
- Presentation of a case (Participatory Ecological Land Use Management - Uganda): Project on agroecological biodiversity in partnership with The Hunger Project and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. Elements on the land use situation in Uganda.
- Presentation of a case (National Museum of Natural History France, Nitidae): The inability to compartmentalize nature as a limit of the land sparing analysis framework. Research and projects on the impacts of pesticides on biodiversity and agroecological approaches around Kibale National Park, Uganda.
- Presentation of the policy brief on synergies between agroecology and conservation (Biovision Foundation and Food Policy Forum for Change): In 2022, through another initiative, the Agroecology Dialogue Series, by FAO, Biovision and the Agroecology Coalition, around 70 participants discussed opportunities and limitations of agroecology to address conservation needs beyond the farm level.
Resources:
Iles de Paix, SOS-Faim and Autre Terre (2022) Faut-il intensifier l’agriculture au nom de l’environnement? résumé exécutif FR # 4 p.
Iles de Paix, SOS-Faim and Autre Terre (2022) Should
Agriculture
be intensified in the name of
the environment?
The advantages and limitations of land sparing to feed the world and preserve biodiversity. Summary EN. # 4 p.
How to reconcile needs,
especially food needs,
with the preservation of
biodiversity? This is where
the tumultuous scientific
and political debates
between land sparing and land sharing arise.
Is it better to produce as
much as possible on a
minimum surface area,
even if it means using
methods that are harmful
to the environment, in
order to leave more space
for nature? Or should
we adopt less intense
and more respectful
environmental practices,
with the risk of having to
farm larger land areas?
The answer to this
question, in defining what
is the best way to farm,
has huge implications
on food sustainability
trajectories, and on the
policy choices that frame
them.
The Agroecology Dialogue Series is an initiative of FAO and the Biovision Foundation supporting the Coalition for food systems transformation through Agroecology (Agroecology Coalition). It is organized as part of the Food Policy Forum for Change.
This paper presents five main findings and key recommendations of a dialogue that explored how integrating agroecology and territorial approaches might support and accelerate a systemic transformation at scale in food systems.
- Agroecology is a holistic and system-based approach that is conducive to better biodiversity outcomes in the agricultural sector
- There is increasing evidence of biodiversity benefits from the upscale of agroecology while at the same time, agroecology builds on health biodiversity
- There is a need for policy coherence and common narratives within the agricultural and biodiversity conservation sectors to materialize the transformative power of agroecology
- Collaboration between agroecology and biodiversity communities can accelerate changes needed to increase the sustainability of food systems
- Agroecology needs to adopt a landscape perspective, to boost tangible biodiversity co-benefits of agroecological systems
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