Safe Food Post 2020: The Potential of the UN Biodiversity Framework

The UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) suggests that agriculture is the biggest threat to biodiversity. However, it does not delve into the role agriculture could play in conserving biodiversity.

Changing agriculture's role from a threat to being the natural promoter of biodiversity is a possibility.

Post COVID-19, when Nations are investing in agriculture to be self-sufficient, here is research from ISB faculty Ashwini Chhatre, Associate Professor, Economics and Public Policy; which describes how mixed-farming at a landscape scale can reduce the perils of monoculture and conventional agriculture.