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  • Publication | 2023

Beyond the farm: Exploring the synergies between agroecology and conservation communities

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

The paper identifies concrete pathways to increase synergies between agroecology and biodiversity conservation communities for food system transformation through policy reform, knowledge creation, investment and change of practices.

Five main findings

  • Agroecology can significantly contribute to biodiversity conservation beyond the farm in a broad range of landscape;

  • Increasing evidence of biodiversity benefits from the upscale of agroecology;

  • Policies: a driving force to promote conservation benefits from agroecology;

  • The need for the biodiversity conservation and agroecology communities to work together;

  • Agroecology needs to adopt a landscape perspective.