Agrobiodiversity 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.
Policymakers, researchers in ecology, agricultural science and management.
Chapter 1. Agrobiodiversity revisited
Chapter 2. Food security and agrobiodiversity management
Chapter 3. Agrobiodiversity management and the development of agriculture
Chapter 4. Crop introduction and agrobiodiversity management
Chapter 5. Utilization of crop diversity for food security
Chapter 6. Impact of introduction of modern varieties on crop diversity
Chapter 7. Transgenics can enhance crop-diversity - under certain circumstances
Chapter 8. Management of crop-associated biodiversity above-ground
Chapter 9. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the underground
Chapter 10. Agrobiodiversity conservation policy: a 'Tragedy of Errors'
Chapter 11. Can the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) approach ensure future food security?
Chapter 12. Agrobiodiversity management for climate change
Chapter 13. Agricultural revolutions and their enemies: lessons for policy makers
"The book takes a contrarian view to industrial agriculture as an inimical foe to biodiversity and cogently argues that industrial agriculture is neither as rare nor as damaging to nature as environmentalists suggest… (the) chapter on below-ground biodiversity is excellent… Recommended."
Choice, Vol. 49 (5), 2012.
"Overall, it suggests a variety of ways to manage agricultural biodiversity for sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture.
The in-depth research and analyses, and the data and case studies provided in this book are impressive contributions to managing agrobiodiversity for food security. Both content
and style of presentation are lucid, highly relevant
and accessible to crop breeders, ecologists, conservation biologists, economists and policy makers, as well as to undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, conservation
and ecology." – Food Security
Lenné J. M. Lenné:
BAgrSc (First Class Honours), PhD (Plant Pathology), DAgrSc University of Melbourne, Australia
30 yrs in tropical agricultural research, management & development, including 15 yrs with CGIAR institutes (CIAT and ICRISAT) and 8 yrs with UK-based institutes, as well as 15 yrs increasingly responsible experience as a consultant in project and programme review through short-term assignments in more than 30 countries in Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa; relevant experience in semi-arid cropping systems; horticultural especially vegetable systems; tropical rice systems; tropical fodder and crop/livestock systems; and tropical agro-biodiversity management.
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