ABSTRACT
Agricultural biodiversity is a cornerstone of food security and essential for human, animal, plant, microbial, and environmental health. Yet, few concrete efforts have been made to holistically examine either the common drivers of biodiversity loss in agroecosystems and human ill health, or their implications for the science-policy interface. Despite their significant contributions to calorie production, modern agroecosystems, reliant on monocultures, high input levels, and intensification, have not substantially contributed to reducing chronic hunger or malnutrition (FAO, 2015a). Millions of people remain hungry, over 800 million still suffer from chronic or acute malnutrition (FAO, IFAD and WFP, 2014; FAO, 2015a), and ecosystems are increasingly imperiled.
