STORY HIGHLIGHTS:

The first FAO report on the State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture was released during the seventeenth session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

The report explains the role of biodiversity and ecological processes for food production, assess its status and threats and drivers causing this biodiversity to decline, and outlines needs and measures to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity for food and agriculture.

It's overall finding is that biodiversity for food and agriculture is in dangerous decline and that research, enabling frameworks and actions are needed stop and reverse the decline.