Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security
Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security
Authors:J M Lenné, D WoodAgrobiodiversity provides most of our food through our interaction with crops and domestic animals. Future global food security is firmly anchored in sound, science-based management of agrobiodiversity. This book presents key concepts of agrobiodiversity management, critically reviewing important current and emerging issues including agricultural development, crop introduction, practical diversity in farming systems, impact of modern crop varieties and GM crops, conservation, climate change, food sovereignty and policies. It also addresses claims and misinformation in the subject based on sound scientific principles.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: March 2011
Binding: Hardcover
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Extent:248pp
ISBN:978-1-8459-3761-4
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Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security
- Agrobiodiversity revisited
- Food security and agrobiodiversity management
- Agrobiodiversity management and the development of agriculture
- Crop introduction and agrobiodiversity management
- Utilization of crop diversity for food security
- Impact of introduction of modern varieties on crop diversity
- Transgenics can enhance crop-diversity - under certain circumstances
- Management of crop-associated biodiversity above-ground
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the underground
- Agrobiodiversity conservation policy: a 'Tragedy of Errors'
- Can the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) approach ensure future food security?
- Agrobiodiversity management for climate change
- Agricultural revolutions and their enemies: lessons for policy makers
- Food security and agrobiodiversity management
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