Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 29
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Noting with concern the findings of the first report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture, of 2019, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and bearing in mind that the agriculture sector depends heavily on biodiversity and its components, as well as on the ecosystem functions and services which biodiversity underpins, and that these sectors also have an impact on biodiversity in various direct and indirect ways, as acknowledged in the Cancun Declaration on Mainstreaming the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity for Well-being, 26