Biodiversity indicators for sustainability in agriculture.
Guidelines, tools and methods for assessing the quality of agro ecosystems
Rome, May 13, ISPRA Auditorium, via Curtatone 7
this manual is aimed to give a contribute to understanding and evaluating the quality of agricultural eco-systems according to the international and European guidelines, in a long-term perspective.
Biodiversity has been identified as a point of reference for agricultural indicators as it is crucial to an organic agricultural development, development which has instead become one of the risk factors for the huge biodiversity loss that is taking place in its components. The recovery of biodiversity is one of the cornerstones for the organic development and agriculture, which together with the knowledge and the specific evaluation of the territory in all its complexity, it allows interventions to achieve maximum sustainable productivity.