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Translations:Information Booklet/53/en (view source)
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The food system and agriculture are one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss, with agriculture alone being the identified threat to 24,000 species at risk of extinction<ref>[https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-global-food-system-primary-driver-biodiversity-loss UNEP “Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss”]</ref>. Currently the world's entire food supply primarily depends on very few plant species<ref>[https://www.bfn.de/en/activities/agriculture/agricultural-biodiversity.html The German Federal Agency for Conservation]</ref>. In the last centuries, there has been a focus on producing more and more food at lower and lower costs. This intensive agricultural production has come at the expense of the Earth’s soil and ecosystems, making soil gradually less fertile overtime<ref name=":5">[https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/02/food-system-impacts-biodiversity-loss Chatham House Report, “Food system impacts on biodiversity loss”]</ref>.