Amid accelerating biodiversity loss and growing threats to ecosystems, 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. This ranges from the targets on ecosystem restoration, invasive alien species and pollution to those addressing genetic resources for food and agriculture, soil health and pollination.

Target 10, for example, commits countries to managing areas under agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry sustainably, including through the sustainable use of biodiversity and a substantial increase in the application of biodiversity-friendly practices.

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 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and agrifood sectors, this publication aims to facilitate the engagement of agrifood stakeholders in the framework's implementation.