WWF is particularly focusing on the sustainable production of 8 priority farmed commodities: cattle (beef and dairy), cotton, biofuels, palm oil, salmon, shrimp, soy, and sugarcane.
WWF's work on sustainable agriculture & aquaculture
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fish farm, Ryfylke, Norway.
Work centres on:
- Convening multi-stakeholder roundtables that define principles and criteria for reducing the impacts of growing priority commodities
- Identifying and implementing better management practices that protect the environment as well as producers' bottom line
- Creating financial incentives to encourage biodiversity conservation
- Improving agricultural policies
- Identifying new income opportunities for producers to ensure their economic viability.
- WWF's Global Initatives – particularly Market Transformation and Forest Carbon
- WWF's water footprint work
- Other WWF offices and programmes around the world
- Multistakeholder agricultural and aquaculture initiatives
- Many other valuable partners
