Books in the Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity series

This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes.

Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world. This book documents good practices innovated by farmers and collects key reviews on good practices from global experts.

This book is the first to provide a global review of the development of community seed banks and includes a wide range of case studies. It reviews their history, evolution, experiences, successes and failures (and reasons why), challenges and prospects. It fills a significant gap in the literature on agricultural biodiversity and conservation, and their contribution to food sovereignty and security.

This book is the first to provide a global review of the development of community seed banks and includes a wide range of case studies. It reviews their history, evolution, experiences, successes and failures (and reasons why), challenges and prospects. It fills a significant gap in the literature on agricultural biodiversity and conservation, and their contribution to food sovereignty and security.

The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the environments where this diversity originated or is being used, are issues which are high on the policy agenda. This book is the first to set out a clear overview of community biodiversity management (CBM) as an approach to meet social, economic and environmental change.

Currently 868 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted. At the same time, over 1 billion people are overweight and obese in both the developed and developing world. Diseases previously associated with affluence, such as cancer, diabetes and cardio-vascular disease, are on the rise. Food system-based approaches to addressing these problems that could enhance food availability and diet quality through local production and agricultural biodiversity often fall outside the traditional scope of nutrition, and have been under-researched. As a consequence, there remains insufficient evidence to support well-defined, scalable agricultural biodiversity interventions that can be linked to improvements in nutrition outcomes. Agricultural biodiversity is important for food and nutritional security, as a safeguard against hunger, a source of nutrients for improved dietary diversity and quality, and strengthening local food systems and environmental sustainability. This book explores the current state of knowledge on the role of agricultural biodiversity in improving diets, nutrition and food security. Using examples and case studies from around the globe, the book explores current strategies for improving nutrition and diets and identifies key research and implementation gaps that need to be addressed to successfully promote the better use of agricultural biodiversity for rural and urban populations and societies in transition.

The Earth's plant genetic resources are a common inheritance of all humankind, which should be held in shared trust for a common future. This book is about the creation, management and use of the global crop commons. It focuses on the legal and administrative construct that provides the basis of the global crop commons.

The Earth's plant genetic resources are a common inheritance of all humankind, which should be held in shared trust for a common future. This book is about the creation, management and use of the global crop commons. It focuses on the legal and administrative construct that provides the basis of the global crop commons.

This book examines the impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services in addressing these problems. Built from the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition (BFN) Project, it reveals key lessons for the development of sustainable and healthy food systems.

Aims to clarify issues by examining biological and social complexities involved in answering the questions, 'What is a farmers' variety?' and 'How can you tell them apart?'. This book examines various solutions based on revised or new definitions of farmers' varieties that reflect the biological and cultural realities in which they are produced.

Aims to clarify issues by examining biological and social complexities involved in answering the questions, 'What is a farmers' variety?' and 'How can you tell them apart?'. This book examines various solutions based on revised or new definitions of farmers' varieties that reflect the biological and cultural realities in which they are produced.

Assesses a variety of economic issues as they relate to agro-biodiversity and shows how addressing these issues can assist in agro-biodiversity policy-making. This book discusses the economics of managing crop diversity on-farm in the context of crop variety attribute preferences and farmers' perception of agro-biodiversity loss.

Assesses a variety of economic issues as they relate to agro-biodiversity and shows how addressing these issues can assist in agro-biodiversity policy-making.

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant species which are more or less closely related to crops. Now the need to conserve CWR in their natural surroundings (in situ) is increasingly recognized. This book includes case studies and examples from Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.

This book discusses the issues, challenges, needs and opportunities related to the promotion of orphan crops, known also as neglected and underutilized species (NUS).

Farmers have developed a range of agricultural practices to sustainably use and maintain a wide diversity of crop species in many parts of the world. This book documents good practices innovated by farmers and collects key reviews on good practices from global experts, not only from the case study countries but also from Brazil, China and other parts of Asia and Latin America.

This book aims to explore what the current state of knowledge is on the role of agricultural biodiversity in improving nutrition and food security. The book will examine and challenge some of the prevailing myths and assumptions to improving nutrition through agriculture mechanisms so as to identify the key research and implementation gaps.

This book examines the impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services in addressing these problems. Built from the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition (BFN) Project, it reveals key lessons for the development of sustainable and healthy food systems.