1. UNEP-WCMC and Agriculture
Marieke Sassen
Ecosystem Assessment Programme

2. What do we do?
 Examine the importance of ecosystem services to
human well-being
 Enhance information and capacity for improved
biodiversity conservation and pro-poor ecosystem
management
 Facilitate reciprocal biodiversity-poverty/development
mainstreaming
 Support policy processes (incl. capacity needs)
 Tools and methods for monitoring and assessment i.e.
indicator development and piloting
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3. Projects
 Report for IFAD: Smallholders, Food Security and the
Environment
 Project: Commodities and Biodiversity: Planning future
capacity (McArthur)
 “Idea”: tools to predict and assess key trade-offs
associated with the expansion of agribusiness (in
East/Southern Africa)
 Concept note: TEEB for Agriculture
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4. Agriculture Commodities are
Logging
the biggest
Invasive species
drivers of
Hunting & trapping
Building development
biodiversity loss
Energy production &
mining
Fire regime
Climate change
Pollution
Human disturbance
Transport & service
corridors
Fisheries
0 500 1000 1500
Number of CR/EN/VU species

5. Commodities and Biodiversity:
Planning future capacity
1. Identify areas of critical importance for biodiversity
and ecosystem services within each region.
2. Using scenarios and modelling assess the likely
impacts of major commodity markets on biodiversity
and ecosystem services in each region.
3. Identify needs and priorities for the development of
additional capacity to address global drivers of
biodiversity and ecosystem services decline
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6. Land acquisition
UNEP-WCMC Steering Committee January 2013

7. Trade-offs associated with the
expansion of agribusiness
 Tools for mapping and valuing ecosystem scenarios
 Exploring future scenarios
=>> Helping decision-makers to assess the trade-offs
involved in policies that seek to balance the growth of
agribusiness against the needs of communities, and the
maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Aichi Target 7 : “By 2020, areas under agriculture ... Are
managed sustainably, ensuring conservation of
biodiversity.”
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8. TEEB for Agriculture
 Raise awareness of the economic importance of
ecosystem services in agriculture
 Identify, measure and capture the benefits and costs of
ecosystem services to agriculture (and vice versa)
 Understand trade-offs (incl. smallholders)
 Understand the opportunities and challenges of
different policy instruments that capture these economic
values
 Help mainstream ecosystem services into agricultural
decision making
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9. TEEB for Agriculture, methods
 A meta-study synthesizing findings of existing studies
Comparative analysis of selected agro-ecosystems
 Build on TEEB sectoral and national studies
 Partners from FAO, CGIAR et al
 Exploring prospective partners and data holders
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10. Thank you
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