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Biodiversity is a collective term that describes the natural treasures that make it possible for us to live on our planet. The plants and animals that populate Earth’s terrestrial and marine habitats belong to an interconnected cycle of life that flourishes when protected, and breaks down when disturbed.
This symbiotic web also provides ecosystem services that supply humans with food, water, incomes and the tools to fight climate change. Yet these gifts from nature are now at risk as the world’s forests disappear rapidly to make way for the agricultural systems that are expected to feed a growing global population over the coming decades.
Incorporating trees into farms can enhance biodiversity and strengthen the sustainability of agriculture: a message increasingly shared among government ministries in Peru. The country is a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and must report on progress in meeting targets for both.
Peru’s Biodiversity Strategic Plan, a requirement under the Convention on Biological Diversity, includes efforts to achieve Aichi Target 7: ‘By 2020, areas under agriculture, aquaculture and forestry will be sustainably managed, ensuring the conservation of biological diversity’.
However, the Plan pays no attention to trees in the agricultural matrix nor their contribution to biodiversity. Moreover, non-forest trees in these productive areas are ‘invisible’, that is, they are not counted in important national assessments, such as the National Forest Inventory and the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
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