Biodiversity and Agricultural Production Practices Toolkit

Without water, of course, there are no forests. But have you ever thought about how, without forests, there is no water? Deep in the forest on the slopes of the Aberdare mountains in Kenya, elephants and leopards roam, bushbucks and giant forest hogs hide in the dappled light, endemic butterflies flit between bushes, and the rare African golden cat hunts […]

Heralded as the ‘place of many trees,’ Guatemala was my third stop in the evaluation of the biodiversity impacts of the CAMBio project in Central America. From dry pine-oak forest in the Western highlands to dense, moist rainforest in the Northern lowlands, the country accounts for a large expanse of Central America’s forest lands. In […]

As part of its sustainability initiatives, Raízen, a joint venture company between Shell and Cosan and Brazil’s largest producer of sugarcane-based ethanol, has committed to implement the Bonsucro standard (a standard to improve the sustainability of sugarcane production and processing).

This brief draws from experience and research in ecoagriculture systems throughout the world to suggest guidelines for national and local implementation of the CBD’s Ecosystem Approach in agricultural regions.

Solution: Ecoagriculture An essential strategy for conserving wild biodiversity, especially that found in highly populated, poor rural areas around the world, is to convert agriculture that is destructive of biodiversity into ecoagriculture. Ecoagriculture builds on the concept of ‘ecosystem management’ and refers to land-use systems that are managed both to produce food and to protect […]

An essential strategy for conserving wild biodiversity, especially that found in highly populated, poor rural areas around the world, is to convert agriculture that is destructive of biodiversity into a new type of agriculture: ‘ecoagriculture’. An ambitious policy and research agenda is needed to develop and promote the adoption of farming systems that increase production, wildlife and also farm incomes in areas of high biodiversity value.