UNEP Transformative Partnership Platform on agroecology
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In June 2021, on the margins of World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners launched the - a farming approach that’s inspired by natural ecosystems combines local and scientific knowledge and focuses on the interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment. In preparation of the UN's first-ever Food Systems Summit in September 2021, this project explores the impact of food systems on the environment.
Over decades, as populations have grown, more people are consuming - and wasting more food – than ever before. Unsustainable food production and consumption patterns are a common thread, running through many of the greatest challenges facing humanity today.
Between 2000 and 2010, large-scale commercial agriculture accounted for 40 per cent of tropical deforestation; and local subsistence agriculture was not far behind, accounting for another 33 per cent. But human food systems depend on biodiversity to function, and conventional food systems reduce biodiversity – effectively destroying their own foundation. [...]
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