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Researchers, NGOs and businesses show how to transform the global food system, locally.
During the Global Landscapes Forum’s Biodiversity Digital Conference 2020, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) brought together practitioners from four projects funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety through its International Climate Initiative for a global learning and knowledge-exchange event.
Public- and private-sector experts from both the global South and the global North shared their experience and insights into the economic gains of biodiversity-friendly food production.
The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly revealed the vulnerability of the world’s food systems to shocks. The post-COVID decade must be managed in a way that builds future resilience. Local and global circular economies that advance biodiverse agricultural landscapes are the way forward.
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An agroforestry system with trees, crops, horticultural crops, livestock and a farmer’s home. Photo: World Agroforestry/ Devashree Nayak
In 2014, India became the first country in the world to adopt a national agroforestry policy. The policy was designed to resolve bottlenecks with other policies on agriculture, forestry, water and environment, recognizing that land use by its very nature must be integrative. Agroforestry is the practice and science of the interface and interactions between agriculture and forestry, involving farmers, livestock, trees and forests at multiple scales. Agroforestry systems have been shown to provide many ecosystem services, helping to reverse environmental damage, while simultaneously improving farmers’ livelihoods.