What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?

Nicola Cenacchi, Elisabetta Gotor, Athanasios Petsakos and Benjamin Schiek

Chapter 7 in What do we know about the future of food systems?, 2025-07-21, pp p. 41-44 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Agrobiodiversity — the diversity of living organisms that underpin agricultural systems — provides numerous critical benefits, from on-farm crop diversity and genetic resources that allow farmers to adapt crops to changing environments to the provision of ecosystem services such as pollination, disease and pest resistance, soil health, and water conservation. These benefits in turn support resilient livelihoods, food security, and diversified, nutritious diets. A number of ex ante theoretical and practical approaches have been used to show how greater agricultural biodiversity is connected to higher production and lower risk exposure, and to assess the role that agrobiodiversity plays in supporting agricultural systems resilience. But little has been done to integrate the measurement of agrobiodiversity into foresight modeling, or to apply foresight tools and methods to study long-term effects of agrobiodiversity on socioeconomic or environmental outcomes. The recent development of the Agrobiodiversity Index and advances in integrated modeling systems provide opportunities for improved scenario analysis focused on agrobiodiversity and informed by agroecology and agricultural economics theory.

Keywords: food systems; agrobiodiversity; risk analysis; resilience; modelling; ecosystem services; diversification; genetic resources; agroforestry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-07-21
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