Pollinators are essential for fruit, vegetable, oilseed and forage production, as well as for the production of seed for many root and fibre crops. In addition to being essential to food security...

This study is an initiative of the European Commission (EC) Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) in support of the EC Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG R&I). It explores a set of EU-funded...

The fourth World Food Safety Day (WFSD) will be celebrated on 7 June 2022 to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage...

Adaptation to climate change in agricultural systems has become a major challenge for policymakers at the international, national, and local scales. The enabling conditions for the governance and implementation of national plans...

IPBES has been mandated to develop a guide to help address conceptual, procedural and practical aspects of IPBES assessments at all scales, and to promote consistency across different...

The scientific evidence reviewed in this workshop report demonstrates that pandemics are becoming more frequent. Their underlying causes are the same global environmental changes that drive...

This report presents the main conclusions of the first-ever IPCC-IPBES co-sponsored workshop (December 2020), which explored diverse facets of the interaction between climate and biodiversity: from current trends...

Released by the CBD on 12 July 2021, this first draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework proposes four goals for 2050 in line with the vision of humanity “living in harmony...

The SoWPGR-2 identifies the significant achievements in conservation and use of plant genetic diversity during the past decade and highlights the critical gaps and emerging challenges in this area. It emphasises...

This report aims at collecting novel and pressing policy issues that can be addressed by Computational Social Science (CSS), an emerging discipline that is rooted in the increasing availability of digital...