Content
Key tools will be presented, including WWF’s Food Forward NBSAPs and NDCs interactive platform, WWF and Biovision’s Guidance Tool Boosting Biodiversity Action through Agroecology, IUCN’s Land Health Monitoring Framework and Red List of Soil Species, as well as a new framework for aligning biopesticide sector development with agroecology. Together, these resources demonstrate how biodiversity action can be integrated into national food system policies, tracked through science-based indicators, and supported by coherent regulatory and financial frameworks.
Country experiences from Colombia, Ethiopia and Bolivia will highlight national strategies and enabling policies that bring food systems thinking and agroecology into practice, showcasing progress in biodiversity action under the Global Biodiversity Framework and policy innovations in food systems. Insights on repurposing harmful subsidies will further underline how incentive structures can be reshaped to accelerate transitions and mobilize resources.
The event will focus on policy, financial, and technical enablers that allow food systems thinking and agroecology to deliver results for biodiversity and support national progress in the implementation of the GBF.
Host Organization(s)
Biovision Foundation, WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), IUCN, Bioversity International (Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT), Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Agroecology Coalition, GIZ and IISD
Objectives
- Discuss NBSAP progress and implementation and potential of aligning with national food system policies relevant to soil conservation and restoration.
- Equip Parties and observers with key tools and guidance documents, including WWF’s new Food Forward NBSAPs and NDCs interactive tools, the Guidance Tool Boosting Biodiversity Action through Agroecology, and IUCN’s Land Health Monitoring Framework.
Programme
Potential of agroecological actions for soil health and biodiversity:
- Discussion on key tools helping countries to better integrate soil biodiversity, food system thinking and agroecology in NBSAPs and national food system policies.
Update on country’s NBSAPs development and implementation status, followed by examples of relevant national policy frameworks related to agroecology:
- Colombia: This presentation will showcase how Colombia has integrated a food systems approach into its Biodiversity Action Plan, highlighting the identified pathways for the agriculture sector to support the implementation of the GBF—where agroecology policy frameworks are particularly relevant.
- Ethiopia: Development of National Agroecology Strategy and its contribution for soil biodiversity and national biodiversity objectives.
- Bolivia: Presentation of recently launched National Agroecology Strategy and its contribution to soil- and agrobiodiversity, as well as the efforts of including agroecology into the updated NBSAPs
Confirmed speakers
- Monica Kobayashi (Programme Management Officer for Agricultural Biodiversity and Inland Waters, CBD)
- John Garcia Ulloa (Senior Programme Manager, Biovision)
- Camila Cammaert (Global agroecology lead, WWF)
- Orsolya NYÁRAI (Programme Officer – Agriculture NbS & Policy Advocacy, IUCN)
- Jonathan Mockshell (Senior Scientist – Enabling Innovations, Policies and Scaling, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT)
- Jorge Iván Hurtado Mora (Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia)
- Farooq Ullah (International Institute for Sustainable Development)
- Carlos Saavedra (GIZ Bolivia – Climate Change Senior Advisor at Agroecological Rural Development and Climate Resilient Programme – ProResiliente)
