Biodiversity also provides the poor with a form of cost-effective and readily accessible insurance against risk, particularly food security risks, health risks and environmental hazards (Vira and Kontoleon, 2013, Roe and Mapendembe, 2013). Conversely, the loss of biodiversity also imposes huge costs on the economies of developing countries - damages due to crime related to natural resources and the environment in developing countries are estimated to be more than 70 billion United States dollars (USD) a year (World Bank, 2014). Agriculture supports more than half of the world’s population, including 1.5 billion people living on small-scale farming in developing countries.