Enhancing biodiversity in Chilean farms requires locally-adapted agroecological protocols

Abstract

In the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the concept of sustainable development, un­derstood as the balance between economic, social, and environmental factors interacting in space and time, was recognized by representatives from 179 countries as vital to sustain human life without compromising the planet (United Nations, 1992). Nowadays, as hu­manity faces unseen anthropogenic problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss (IPCC, 2021), the concept of sustainable development has been recently highlighted by United Nations through the creation of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, aiming at impro­ving environmental and human well-being globally (United Nations, 2015).