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Agricultural Biodiversity

Preserving while producing

Agricultural biodiversity provides not only food and income but also raw materials for clothing, shelter, medicines, breeding new varieties, and performs other services such as maintenance of soil fertility and biota, and soil and water conservation, all of which are essential to human survival. Nearly one third of the world's land area is used for food production. More »

What's New

10 June 2009
A documentary film made by the Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management (IDA) is now available (put link to website with word available) and shows the importance of agricultural biodiversity for food and agriculture, with astonishing pictures from Europe and Asia. More »
11 December 2008
Food Security in Mountains, Message by the Executive Secretary, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, on the occasion of International Mountain Day, 11 December 2008. More »
15 October 2008
World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy, Message from Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Food Day, 16 October 2008. More »

The theme for the 2008 International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD) was “Biodiversity and Agriculture”. More »