Agricultural biodiversity is a matter of life and death for us.... We cannot separate agro-biodiversity from food security." -Zambian delegate to the Conference of Parties, Convention on Biological Diversity May 1998. The practices and policies included in this discussion are "win-win" solutions that can avoid conflicts and build synergies among agriculture, biodiversity and food security.In sum, policies and actions to support agro-biodiversity at many levels are needed, and will lead to multidimensional economic and ecological gains in both the short term and the long term.