What biodiversity in food, agriculture can achieve quickly

Crop demonstration plots at the National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL). [Juliet Omelo, Standard]

What does it mean for biodiversity for food and agriculture to thrive? Not merely to endure climate shocks, market disruptions, or policy changes, but to regenerate, nourish communities, support resilient livelihoods, and sustain food systems for future generations?

At a time when climate change and its impacts, accelerating biodiversity loss, land degradation, and growing nutritional insecurity are converging, this question demands urgent attention. Biodiversity for food and agriculture encompasses the domesticated animals and plants used in livestock, crop, forest, and aquaculture systems; harvested forest and aquatic species; wild relatives of domesticated species; and other wild species collected for food and non-food products.