While these sectors depend on healthy ecosystems for their productive capacity (see e.g. OECD, 2015c, on fisheries and aquaculture), the sectors also exert pressure on biodiversity and are essential to conservation and sustainable use efforts. Large-scale land conversion for agriculture and degradation of ecosystems due to unsuitable agricultural practices and input use is a major pressure on biodiversity loss. In OECD countries, the contribution of agriculture to total income and employment is relatively low,10 however, the sector continues to have a significant environmental impact given the high levels of input use and large land area under cultivation (36%) (OECD, 2016a, 2013a).