ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses three aspects of agricultural biodiversity, using examples mostly drawn from urban agriculture. Biodiversity has often been deconstructed to an enumeration of ecological goods and services that it provides, which leads to the perception that it is a suite of small goals that compete with food production. Instead it is suggested that it should be seen as a component of land-use, like food production, that contributes ‘public value’. Second, the chapter briefly enumerates our knowledge of land-use issues that preserve or improve agricultural biodiversity. Third, it addresses what options we have to change land-use to improve agricultural biodiversity.