Biodiversity and Agricultural Production Practices Toolkit
Biodiversity and Agricultural Production Practices Toolkit is a document that serves as a guide to considering possibilities for sourcing agricultural raw
materials from systems of agriculture that are managed to promote agricultural biodiversity and the many benefits that it generates, including wild biodiversity.
Production practices that improve biodiversity or reduce the negative impacts on biodiversity of producing crops and livestock are becoming more widely familiar and better understood as technically feasible, economically viable, socially acceptable and ecologically sustainable options in agriculture. Evidence is growing that agricultural management practices that benefit biodiversity also improve both the yield and the quality of the crops and livestock produced. Many such practices are associated with sustainable intensification strategies of agricultural development.