The report published by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in December 2016, confirms the important role that the world’s biodiversity plays in ensuring the future of sustainable agricultural development.”The Biodiversity Advantage: Global benefits from smallholder actions” perceives that biodiversity loss is one of the main threats to smallholder farmers and their communities. Without biodiversity, livelihoods are not sustainable and food security and nutrition for the entire planet is precarious. -# Read the report: