Abstract: Agriculture is the primary driver of global land-use changes and habitat loss leading to a great threat to biodiversity. The implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity "Aichi Targets" is an important initiative to promote the global conservation of biodiversity, of which the sustainable use of agriculture mentioned in target 7 is related to the conservation of agricultural biodiversity directly, targets 1,4,5,8,13,14,15, and 18 also contribute to the achievement of target 7. Understanding and evaluating the progress of these agriculture-related "Aichi Targets" are essential to adjust, revise, and set up the goals of global agricultural biodiversity. In this study, we collected information on the progress of all parties' targets submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and compared progress across continents and the countries possessing high biodiversity levels or the big agricultural country. The results showed that Asia, Africa, and South America have achieved more targets than the global averages, while the targets achieved by North America and Europe are below the global averages. South Africa and China did the best of all seven selected countries, followed by India, Brazil, France, Germany, and Canada, showing a generally same trend with the continents-level analysis. The overall goals have gained some progress already, but the conservation of agricultural biodiversity was hard to effectively achieve. By analyzing the progress and problems of accomplishing the goals, we advised to improve the biodiversity conservation targets from four aspects, such as setting up differentiated goals, adding new quantifiable goals, setting new technical indicators, and strengthening communication and cooperation. This paper puts forward and improves the idea of developing agricultural biodiversity indicators and provides a scientific basis for the development of agriculture-related targets and indicators for the Fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Key words: Aichi Targets, progress assessment, agricultural biodiversity, conservation, suggest