Biodiversitätsprüfung Agrícola — Werkzeugentwicklung und -ausbau

The “Biodiversity Check Agrícola” project closed a persistent gap in Central America and the Caribbean by creating a practical tool that helped farms recognize biodiversity’s value to production and improve good practices. It fostered open dialogue with managers and produced action plans with realistic, measurable goals—covering ecosystem services, micro-climate regulation, soil fauna, the role of forest patches for beneficial organisms, and riparian areas for flood control. Plans also addressed phasing out biodiversity-harming pesticides, managing invasive species and wildlife, and designing gardens and live barriers with native plants. The team ran a short consultation with producers and industry, field-tested the tool on a banana farm in Costa Rica, a pineapple farm in the Dominican Republic, and a sugarcane farm in Guatemala, and trained at least 30 agronomists and biologists across the three countries.