The problems being addressed in this session are related to ensuring global food and nutrition security, as well as promoting resilience in production systems and delivering ecosystem services through agricultural biodiversity. Whole landscape management approaches embody biodiversity management, use and conservation across landscapes and ecosystems, while also harbouring biodiversity at species and intra-species dimensions.
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