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The Biodiversity Advantage: Global benefits from smallholder actions

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  • Soma Chakrabarti

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Biodiversity is about more than plants, animals, and micro-organisms and their ecosystems – the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992) recognizes that it is also very much about people and our need for food security, medicines, fresh air, shelter, and a clean and healthy environment. Biodiversity is also essential for the maintenance of ecosystem-based services, such as the provision of water and food for human, animal and plant life. When we make an effort to conserve biodiversity, we are helping to maintain critical global biological resources to meet our needs today as well as those of future generations. Biodiversity conservation is therefore central to achieving recent global commitments for sustainable development under “Agenda 2030”, adopted by the United Nations in 2015. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) recognizes that losing biodiversity means losing opportunities for coping with future challenges, such as those posed by climate change and food insecurity.

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  • Soma Chakrabarti, 2016. "The Biodiversity Advantage: Global benefits from smallholder actions," IFAD Advantage Series 304737, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:unadas:304737
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.304737
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