Transformational Partnership

1. The Transformational Partnership 1. Biodiversity Conservation institutions and tools can reconnect agriculture to core biological and processes and mosaic bioculturalandscapes crucial for innovation, resilience and food security

2. Transformational Partnership 2. Small scale family farming that uses biodiversity for competitive advantage can establish the buffers, corridors and extension of biodiversity into human managed areas to achieve ambitious conservation goals, stop species loss, maintain core habitats, broaden genetic base of endangered species, bring biodiversity closer to home for food security.

3. Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation and Cuban MAB Reserves: Bridging managed and natural landscapes • Restoring diversity and health to agrarian landscapes and food systems. • Supporting protected area management and conservation of agricultural biodiversity (MAB –Cuba)

4. Restoring Tropical Agriculture through products from Biosphere Reserves Food Sovereignty and Healthier Diets

5. Indicators to measure the resilience of social-ecological systems

6. Social and Ecological Indicators of Resilience Measure the impact of agricultural and other land management practices on ecosystem integrity and community wellbeing Measure the benefits that wild landscapes and niches provide to livelihoods in managed ecosystems Measure interactions between people and the various components of mosaic landscapes and biodiversity rich production systems Assess community ability to adapt, innovate and maintain landscape resilience Establish a common understanding between conservation and development agencies and communities to establish an alternative global paradigm for conservation and development