UNEP-WCMC and Agriculture

Marieke SassenEcosystem Assessment Programme

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What do we do?

Examine the importance of ecosystem services to human well-being

Enhance information and capacity for improved biodiversity conservation and pro-poor ecosystem management

Facilitate reciprocal biodiversity-poverty/development mainstreaming

Support policy processes (incl. capacity needs) Tools and methods for monitoring and

assessment i.e. indicator development and piloting

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Projects Report for IFAD: Smallholders, Food Security

and the Environment Project: Commodities and Biodiversity:

Planning future capacity (McArthur) “Idea”: tools to predict and assess key trade-

offs associated with the expansion of agribusiness (in East/Southern Africa)

Concept note: TEEB for Agriculture

Commodities are the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss

Fisheries

Transport & service corridors

Human disturbance

Pollution

Climate change

Fire regime

Energy production & mining

Building development

Hunting & trapping

Invasive species

Logging

Agriculture

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Commodities and Biodiversity: Planning future capacity1. Identify areas of critical importance for

biodiversity and ecosystem services within each region.

2. Using scenarios and modelling assess the likely impacts of major commodity markets on biodiversity and ecosystem services in each region.

3. Identify needs and priorities for the development of additional capacity to address global drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem services decline

Land acquisition

UNEP-WCMC Steering Committee January 2013

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Trade-offs associated with the expansion of agribusiness Tools for mapping and valuing ecosystem scenarios Exploring future scenarios

=>> Helping decision-makers to assess the trade-offs involved in policies that seek to balance the growth of agribusiness against the needs of communities, and the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Aichi Target 7 : “By 2020, areas under agriculture ... Are managed sustainably, ensuring conservation of biodiversity.”

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TEEB for Agriculture

Raise awareness of the economic importance of ecosystem services in agriculture Identify, measure and capture the benefits and costs of ecosystem services to agriculture (and vice versa) Understand trade-offs (incl. smallholders) Understand the opportunities and challenges of different policy instruments that capture these economic values Help mainstream ecosystem services into agricultural decision making

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TEEB for Agriculture, methods

A meta-study synthesizing findings of existing studies Comparative analysis of selected agro-ecosystems Build on TEEB sectoral and national studies Partners from FAO, CGIAR et al Exploring prospective partners and data holders

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TEEB for Agriculture

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