Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems
Published in more than three other languages and growing, Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems takes a look at how farmers manage, maintain, and benefit from biodiversity in agricultural...
View ArticleDamage, Diversity and Genetic Vulnerability
report proceedingsIn 2002, a team of international and national partners from China, Ecuador, Morocco and Uganda, Bioversity International, FAO and faculty from Universities in the USA, Australia, and...
View ArticleNew Book “Managing Water and Agroecosystems for Food Security”
http://wle.cgiar.org/blog/2013/09/04/agricultural-biodiversitys-contribution-to-ecosystem-functions/ While scientific literature has dealt extensively with the relationship between diversity and...
View ArticleHow agricultural biodiversity can help prevent food loss – A focus for World...
Yesterday, as part of celebrations for World Food Day, I spoke at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) about how we can reduce food waste and loss in developing countries. Last year...
View ArticleBioversity International farmer- researcher field trials mark success at...
Worldwide, an estimated 10-16% of global harvests are lost each year due to crop pests and diseases that attack farmers’ fields (Strange & Scott, 2005; Oerke, 2006). Pests and diseases not only...
View ArticleDiversity Against Damage (DAD) – A Global Family Combating Crop Loss Today...
Diversity Against Damage is a global family of men and women researchers, educators, developers, policy makers and farmers working together to integrate intra-specific crop diversity (crop varietal...
View ArticleCrop Genetic Diversity in the Field and On-farm; Principles and Applications...
This book was launched on 8 June 2016 at FAO during the Inter-Governmental Working Group on PGRFA; and is based on twenty years of global research. This is the first comprehensive reference on crop...
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