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2007
Agrobiodiversity refers to the variety and variability of living organisms that contribute to food and agriculture in the broadest sense, and that are associated with cultivating crops and rearing animals within ecological complexes. It is further expanded in some contexts to include all the organisms present in an agricultural landscape.
Jackson, Louise E. +5 more
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Agrobiodiversity refers to the variety and variability of living organisms that contribute to food and agriculture in the broadest sense, and that are associated with cultivating crops and rearing animals within ecological complexes. It is further expanded in some contexts to include all the organisms present in an agricultural landscape.
Jackson, Louise E. +5 more
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Agrobiodiversity Under Different Property Regimes
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2016Having an adequate and extensively recognized resource governance system is essential for the conservation and sustainable use of crop genetic resources in a highly populated planet. Despite the widely accepted importance of agrobiodiversity for future plant breeding and thus food security, there is still pervasive disagreement at the individual level ...
Timmermann, Cristian, Robaey, Zoë
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Agrobiodiversity in an Oasis Archipelago
Journal of Ethnobiology, 2013Oases on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula harbor farms and gardens which largely feature crops first introduced by Jesuit missionaries (1697–1768). These spring-fed agricultural landscapes are currently managed as diverse agroecosystems with original heritage food crop species as well as newer crop and livestock introductions.
RAFAEL DE GRENADE, GARY PAUL NABHAN
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Invisible Treasures: Assessing Indonesia’s Unique Agrobiodiversity for Food and Nutrition Security
SustainabilityIndonesia is a biodiversity hotspot with high levels of endemism of globally important food crops and their crop wild relatives, as well as locally adapted cultivars.
T. Borelli +8 more
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2019
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors
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Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors
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What is the value of agrobiodiversity in southern Europe?
European Review of Agricultural EconomicsThis study explores how agrobiodiversity at both local and regional scales impacts farmland value across five Mediterranean countries in the EU. Previous literature has primarily addressed on-farm biodiversity and its effects on productivity and risk ...
Lea Nicita, Robert Mendelsohn
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, 2020
The expansion of monocultures across New World tropical landscapes threatens an Afrodescendant smallholder farming system that has long prioritized agrobiodiversity and agroecological practices.
Judith A. Carney
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The expansion of monocultures across New World tropical landscapes threatens an Afrodescendant smallholder farming system that has long prioritized agrobiodiversity and agroecological practices.
Judith A. Carney
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Agrobiodiversity on the agenda
elni Review, 2008With the 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s coming up, the debate on biodiversity is spilling over from the circles of the ‘usual suspects’ to a broader public. Agricultural biodiversity, or ‘agrobiodiversity’, as an important component of biological diversity, however, remains an unknown quantity ...
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Agrobiodiversity: towards inovating legal systems
2012The innovative concept of ‘agrobiodiversity’ has emerged in the past 10-15 years at the intersection of biodiversity and agriculture, in an interdisciplinary context that involves various areas of knowledge (agronomy, anthropology, ecology, botany, genetics, conservation biology, etc.).
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Communities and Their Agrobiodiversity
Outlook on Agriculture, 2009Poor scientific understanding of traditional farming systems and related socioeconomic issues seriously impede the identification of solutions for sustainable agricultural development in the Himalayan region. Traditional agrobiodiversity management plays a key role in coping with the uncertainties prevailing in the Himalaya. There is an urgent need to
Nehal A. Farooquee, R.K. Maikhuri
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