Agrobiodiversity encompasses the diversity of genetic resources, species, and ecosystems within agricultural systems, providing stability, adaptability, and resilience needed for sustainable food systems, nutrition, and livelihoods. Africa faces severe challenges, including biodiversity loss, soil degradation and rapid deforestation, mainly driven by agricultural expansion. Conserving agrobiodiversity supports essential ecosystem services, among them pollinators, whose services underpin agricultural productivity and human nutrition. However, while studies in other regions of the world show steep pollinator declines, Africa still lacks the baseline data, effective monitoring methods, information services and evidence of pollinator status to influence policy or contribute to global assessments.

• Our goal for the Agrobiodiversity and Pollinator Services Program is to improve biodiversity conservation outcomes in agricultural landscapes in sub-Saharan Africa by leveraging biodiversity informatics to inform sustainable farming practices, land use management, and policy development.
• Our grant making initiatives aim to expand the collection, curation and sharing of biodiversity data from areas bordering, within or alongside agriculture.
• We seek to increase the generation, accessibility and quality of biodiversity data in agricultural systems, invest in innovative technologies and methods for data collection, and support platforms that make such knowledge usable at regional and local levels.