CommunicationPublished on 21 July 2025

Monitoring land health in agricultural landscapes

The Land health monitoring framework introduces a holistic approach to assessing biodiversity and habitat diversity within agroecosystems. By offering a flexible framework that integrates a large range of existing tools and indicators, this report addresses the challenge of measuring land health – and the accompanying benefits it brings through various ecosystem services. The framework uses functional biodiversity—including above-ground biodiversity, below-ground biodiversity, and landscape elements—as indicators to evaluate the ecosystems’ capacity to support nature and people over time. As a complementary document to the report, a guidance note – Monitoring land health in agricultural landscapes – is now available, providing a step-by-step process to select indicators, develop monitoring protocols, and implement biodiversity tracking across scales in agricultural areas.