COP16: Agroecology Must be Key to Biodiversity Action

During COP 16, Agroecology Fund partners and allies Global Alliance for the Future of Food, the Agroecology Coalition and others, launched new guidance to support national KMGBF implementation while ensuring coherence between biodiversity and food systems policies. COP16 made significant strides in recognizing the rights and roles of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendant communities in biodiversity protection. This necessarily includes peasants and other small-scale food producers. Despite this progress, the debates at COP16 also underscored tensions between the demands of civil society and the increasingly business-focused biodiversity agenda.