New report outlines how agrifood sectors can contribute to the achievement of the biodiversity targets and indicators set out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2022, setting out an ambitious roadmap for biodiversity protection to 2030.
The Framework is crucial for food systems as agrifood sectors – crop and livestock production, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture – depend on biodiversity as the foundation for sustainable production, ensuring long-term food security and nutrition for all. Whilst biodiversity loss and growing threats to ecosystems are accelerating, sustainable agrifood systems can play a crucial role in reversing these trends while ensuring food security for a growing global population.
Agrifood systems are directly linked to more than half of the 23 targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and, in some way, to all the others. Therefore, agrifood sectors have a significant role in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of actions necessary to meet the framework’s targets. By highlighting the connections between the KMGBF and agrifood sectors, this publication aims to facilitate the engagement of agrifood stakeholders in the framework’s implementation.
