Change in knowledge and capacity

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All of these are meant to support these stakeholders in their decision making from policy to investment to project development, towards achieving sustainable food and agricultural systems.

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Find out more about knowledge products, frameworks, metrics, and capacity strengthening initiatives including:

The ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� Flagship Report Series was launched in 2021 to demonstrate the importance of conserving nature for human well-being and all life on Earth, bringing nature conservation into mainstream political and economic decision-making. The ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� Flagship Report series seeks to draw from multiple lines of evidence: novel analysis to bring together data based on ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� standards, with authoritative external datasets and integrated assessment models; structured narrative literature review and synthesis; and case studies and examples from around the world. The case studies draw from ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ��’s decentralised network of approximately 200 Member governments and 1,200 non-governmental and Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations, and around 16,000 conservation specialists mobilised through seven independent expert Commissions, and 50 regional and national offices.

Agriculture and conservation, the second in the Flagship Report Series, focuses on agriculture and nature. The interactions, synergies, and trade-offs between the two sit at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which calls for ending hunger and ensuring food security while also mandating the protection and restoration of nature. Whether the two can be achieved simultaneously, and if so how, are crucial questions for humanity and our planet. Agriculture and conservation sets out the positive and negative relationships between agriculture and nature conservation and mobilises new modelling approaches to examine both imperatives within a range of realistic policies.

Publication 2024

Agriculture and conservation

In 2021, ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� launched the ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� Flagship Report Series, to help demonstrate the importance of conserving nature for human well-being and all life on Earth. This report, the second in the series,…

The Regen10 Outcomes-Based Framework

Supported by ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� Regen10 is developing an for the transition to regenerative food systems in consultation with farmers, businesses, civil society groups and other food system actors. The Framework aims to equip all food system actors with a shared understanding of how to advance regenerative food systems, and a ‘North Star’ that will guide them to make decisions that accelerate the transition to regenerative – recognizing that the responsibility for this transition should be shared across the value chain. It will also help them track and measure the changes that occur over time in farms and landscapes.

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The Land health monitoring framework

The introduces a holistic approach to assessing biodiversity and habitat diversity within agroecosystems. By offering a flexible framework that integrates a large range of existing tools and indicators, this report addresses the challenge of measuring land health – and the accompanying benefits it brings through various ecosystem services – at multiple scales.

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The Common ground report

The report shows how achieving greater sustainability closely depends on agriculture, and how the future of farming relies on Nature and biodiversity conservation. Therefore reaching consensus between the worlds of agriculture and conservation is critical. The report concludes that a common ground for mutually beneficial action exists, and makes a series of recommendations which would improve the situation further.

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Publication 2020

Common ground

Recent major international reports have highlighted the alarming impact of food production systems on climate change, land and biodiversity. This report shows that common ground between the…

Approaches to sustainable agriculture��

Sustainable agriculture needs to consider two inseparable, intertwined societal priorities – preserving the environment and providing safe and healthy food for all.��This report shows that different approaches to sustainable agriculture exist, that they have a number of important commonalities, but also that their diversity is a strength in itself. The challenge is to enable dialogue and create the market or regulatory environment that will help prioritise according to local contexts.

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Exploring the future of vegetable oils

Globally, vegetable oil crops account for over one-third of all agricultural land and this is forecast to increase. No crop is good or bad in and of itself, and much depends on the contexts, including where and how it is planted, owned, managed, traded and consumed. This report explores what we need to do to improve the environmental, socio- economic, and nutritional outcomes of vegetable oil production.��

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Conserving healthy soils

��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� Globally, soil biodiversity has been estimated to contribute between US$1.5 and 13 trillion annually to the value of ecosystems services – the goods and services provided by healthy ecosystems, including the provision of food, hydrological services and regulation of climate. Current land degradation, chiefly due to chemical-fuelled, intensive agricultural production, is causing the loss of soil biodiversity, undermining the services provided by healthy soils. ��ϲʿ��ֳ�ֱ�� recommends that Governments should put in place policies and legislation, and promote land management practices which restore or preserve soil biodiversity.

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