The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization (WHO) nor on the part of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its. [...] The greatest challenge to protecting Planetary Health over the coming century is to develop the capability of human civilisations, to interpret, understand, and respond to the risks that we ourselves have created and this Review is a major advance in our understanding of these risks and the benefits of actions to reduce them. [...] Professor Sir Andy Haines Chair of the Lancet-Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Planetary Health and Professor of Public Health and Professor of Primary Care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health xi GLEN BOWES Biodiversity and Nutrition Agricultural Health “is a state of biodiversity complete physical, mental and social. [...] Biodiversity underpins ecosystem mental and social well-being and functioning and the provision of goods not merely the absence of disease or and services that are essential to human infirmity”. [...] At a planetary scale, Diversity (Article 2) reflects different levels ecosystems and biodiversity play a critical role of biodiversity (including genetic diversity, in determining the state of the Earth System, species and ecosystems) and the complexities regulating its material and energy flows and its of biotic and abiotic interactions.
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