What is ecoagriculture?
Ecoagriculture is a landscape-management approach that achieves three goals at a landscape scale: conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services; sufficient food production; improved rural livelihoods. The concept of ecoagriculture emerged from the recognition that in the 21st century, humans will place unprecedented demands on the world’s finite land base, seeking to increase global food production by 50 to 100% and improve living standards for billions of poor people, while simultaneously protecting wild biodiversity and the ecosystem services that sustain human life. These demands must be addressed together, and solutions must be based on land use systems that advance multiple goals in the same geographic space. Thus, ‘ecoagriculture’ was born. Ecoagriculture advances the idea that wildlife conservation, agricultural production, and enhancement of rural livelihoods can be complementary activities, especially if they are undertaken at a landscape scale. Innov
