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1 online resource (457 pages) |
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Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity |
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Issues in agricultural biodiversity.
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| Contents |
Community Biodiversity Management Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I: Community biodiversity management and in situ conservation; 1.1 General introduction; 1.2 The evolution of community biodiversity management as a methodology for implementing in situ conservation of agrobiodiversity in Nepal; 1.3 Community biodiversity management: defined and contextualized |
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1.4 On-farm management of plant genetic resources through community seed banks in Ethiopia1.5 The diversity kit: restoring farmers' sovereignty over food, seed and genetic resources in Guaraciaba, Brazil; 1.6 Practices that contribute to the empowerment of farming communities for managing their agrobiodiversity in Asia; 1.7 The Maison de la Semence Paysanne and diversity platform: promoting agrobiodiversity in France; 1.8 Community biodiversity management and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources; Part II: Practices contributing to community biodiversity management |
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2.1 Practices contributing to community biodiversity management: introduction2.2 Enhancing awareness of the value of local biodiversity in Nepal; 2.3 Practices that contribute to promoting and appreciating Andean crops and identity in Cotacachi, Ecuador; 2.4 Community biodiversity registers in Nepal: enhancing the capabilities of communities to document, monitor and take control over their genetic resources; 2.5 Gene banks that promote on-farm management through the reintroduction of local varieties in Brazil |
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2.6 Community seed reserves: enhancing sovereignty and resilience in Central America2.7 Community seed banks in the semi-arid region of Paraíba, Brazil; 2.8 The community seed bank: a common driver for community biodiversity management; 2.9 Community biodiversity management fund: promoting conservation through livelihood development in Nepal; Part III: People, biodiversity and landscapes; 3.1 People, biodiversity and landscapes: introduction; 3.2 Traditional people and the conservation of biodiversity in Brazil |
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3.3 Opportunities for ethnobotany to contribute to community biodiversity management3.4 The domestication of landscapes and cultural keystone species in a context of community biodiversity management in Brazil; 3.5 Caívas and their contribution to the conservation of Atlantic forest landscapes in Brazil; 3.6 Community management of forest coffee landscapes in Ethiopia; 3.7 Promoting the community management of garcinia genetic resources in the central Western Ghats, India; 3.8 The sustainable development reserve: an option for securing livelihoods in Imbituba, Brazil |
| Summary |
The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by those engaged in this arena. CBM contributes to the empowerment of farming communities to manage their biological resources and make informed decisions on the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity. This book is the first to set out a clear overview of CBM as a methodology for m |
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Part IV: Agrobiodiversity, livelihoods and markets |
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Print version record |
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Biodiversity conservation -- Citizen participation
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Sustainable agriculture -- Citizen participation
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Plant genetics.
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Biodiversity conservation -- Citizen participation
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Plant genetics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Subedi, Abishkar
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Peroni, Nivaldo
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Thijssen, Marja
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O'Keeffe, Elizabeth
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| ISBN |
9781136474873 |
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1136474870 |
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