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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

29 January 2010
Special Symposium: Living Plants, Liveable Communities - Exploring Sustainable Horticulture for the 21st Century, February 16 to 19, 2010 at Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario, Canada. More »
15 October 2009
Message from Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Food Day, 16 October 2009 – Achieving Food Security in Times of Crisis. More »
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 »

Upcoming Meetings

26 - 28 April 2010, Tokyo, Japan
International Symposium for the CBD: The role of forest biodiversity in the sustainable use of ecosystem goods and services in agro-forestry, fisheries and forestry. More »

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