Special Issue: Food Sustainability, the Food System, and Alaskans [PDF]
, 2011 [Geography] -- The Alaska Food Policy Council: Everyone knows that food is important, but our dependence upon Outside for the stuff of life has finally begun to seem, well, just a little discomfiting to Alaska's policymakers.
School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, University of Alaska
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Assessing the benefits of Andean crop diversity on farmers' livelihood: insights from a development programme in Bolivia and Peru [PDF]
, 2017 This paper analyses the impact of a development programme designed at promoting the sustainable use of Andean Grain diversity. Results demonstrate that knowledge-sharing on agronomic practices, on benefits derived from consumption, and improving Andean ...
Bellon, A. +3 more
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Combining revealed and stated preference methods to assess the private value of agrobiodiversity in Hungarian home gardens: [PDF]
" Hungarian home gardens are small-scale farms managed by farm households using traditional management practices and family labor. They generate private benefits for farmers by enhancing diet quality and providing food when costs of transacting in local ...
Birol, Ekin +2 more
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Enhancing the function and provisioning of ecosystem services in agriculture: Agroecological principles [PDF]
, 2015 Agroecology is essentially based on the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural production, and thus represents a true rupture from the way agriculture has been seen and analysed by mainstream science for over a century.
Hainzelin, Etienne
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«Cuando yo ya no pueda hacerlo, nadie lo haráa»: La conservación de la agrobiodiversidad en tiempos de migración [PDF]
, 2020 This research explores the connections between agrobiodiversity conservation and indigenous farmers’ rural-urban migration in the Altiplano Norte of Bolivia.
Baldinelli, M.G.
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Conservation of tropical root and tuber crops agrobiodiversity : on farm true seeds production and use as a mean for geographic distribution of allelic diversity [PDF]
, 2009 The tropical root and tuber crops (cassava, sweet potato, taro and yam) are cultivated throughout the tropics where they play a major role for food security.
Labeyrie, Vanesse, Lebot, Vincent
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Mountain Agrobiodiversity in Peru
Mountain Research and Development, 2000 Abstract Conservation of agricultural biodiversity has become an important paradigm in efforts to promote sustainable development throughout the world. This is especially the case in Andean countries, where ex situ conservation of crops has been a focus of attention since the 1970s.
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Due to their limited access to the external productive inputs and the dependency on rain-fed agricultural production, small scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa have continued to face undernutrition despite the significant advancements in agriculture ...
Francis Odhiambo Oduor +3 more
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Strategies to valorise agrobiodiversity [PDF]
, 2018 The current food value chain is characterised by a highly standardised offer produced in an increasingly monotonous agricultural system. In parallel, there is a growing interest among consumers for traditional or regional crop varieties. The conservation
Förtser, I. +3 more
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Formal and informal systems in support of farmer management of agro-biodiversity: some policy challenges to consolidate lessons learned [PDF]
The last decade has seen the emergence of a number of innovative community level initiatives in Asia, Africa and Latin America for agrobiodiversity development and conservation.
Byström, Marie
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