IFB Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Dr Eun Hye Kim, recently completed a series of key stakeholder engagements in Mexico in collaboration with KE partner, TierraSphere, to bridge the farm-to-corporate biodiversity gap in global food systems.
Key stakeholders who were interviewed included:
- national policy-making bodies such as CONABIO (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad) and CONAFOR (Comisión Nacional Forestal),
- Mexico-based international NGO, Reforestamos México,
- community-driven forest carbon project developer, Bioforestal, and
- and local ejido communities including Comisariado Ejidal (President of the Ejidal Commission).
These interviews were conducted to characterise the alignment—or misalignment—among diverse stakeholders on integrating measurable biodiversity outcomes along upstream value chains. The findings from this multilevel stakeholder analysis will be presented at the World Biodiversity Forum in June this year.
Eun said:
While there is a shared ambition to enhance biodiversity across all stakeholders, their underlying motivations and priorities differ. The key to progress lies in aligning these drivers into a unified, actionable pathway.
This engagement will continue online with global food companies to bridge the gap between local action and corporate strategy.
The KE fellowship programme is led by IFB Leader Joanne Chamberlain of Queen Mary University London. The research is supervised by IFB Leaders Franziska Schrodt and Richard Field of the University of Nottingham.