Assessing agriculture and food systems sustainably requires understanding the vast and interacting complex of factors, ranging from agricultural land, rangeland and inland fisheries to labour, infrastructure and the cultures and traditions involved in growing crops. Assessing such complexity with a measure as narrow as “yield per hectare” represents a risk factor for food systems.
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture” (TEEBAgriFood), a new study launched by UN Environment on the occasion of World Environment Day 2018, demonstrates how to capture the complex reality of today’s diverse and current “eco-agro” systems. -food".
The TEEBAgriFood Assessment Framework has three guiding principles – universality, comprehensiveness and inclusiveness. In this study, a summary of the TEEB results and recommendations for the Scientific and Economic Foundations of Agriculture and Food Report is presented.
