Biodiversity plays a crucial role for agriculture and food production. Humans depend on the variety of food, shelter, and goods for their livelihood. However, humans put increasing pressure on species and their environment.
As a result, numerous plants and animals are at risk, as well as essential natural processes such as pollination by insects and the regeneration of soils by micro-organisms.
To feed the growing population, agriculture must provide more food. It will also be essential to increase its resilience by protecting a wide array of life forms with unique traits, such as plants that survive drought or livestock that reproduce in harsh conditions.
Sustainable agricultural practices can both feed people and protect the oceans, forests, prairies and other ecosystems that harbour biological diversity. Every year on October 16, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day in commemoration of its founding on that day in 1945.
The World Food Day theme for 2004, was "Biodiversity for Food Security" as recognition to biodiversity's role in ensuring that people have sustainable access to enough high-quality food to lead active and healthy lives.
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