Agrobiodiversity manifestly important – Agricultural …
Nov 15, 2021 · The process leading up to the just-started 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress included coming up with the "Rome Manifesto: Using Agrobiodiversity to Transform Food Systems." This highlights three "commitments to help tackle global challenges including climate change, malnutrition, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation." Consume diverse foods in diets that are nutritious ...
IPBES7 on agricultural biodiversity
May 7, 2019 · So I've trawled the latest IPBES Global Assessment Summary for Policymakers for references to agricultural diversity, so you don't have to. Here's the most relevant of the Key Messages: A6. Globally, local varieties and breeds of domesticated plants and animals are disappearing. This loss of diversity, including genetic diversity, poses a serious risk to global … Continue reading "IPBES7 on ...
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog – Agrobiodiversity is crops, …
Today is the International Day of Biological Diversity. As it happens, Eat This Podcast today published an episode that raises a question I have seldom seen given any serious discussion. Are rare breeds important for the conservation of genetic diversity? Like all headline questions, the answer is probably “No”.
Brainfood: Diversity & stability, Diversity & profitability, Rotations ...
Oct 3, 2022 · Consistent stabilizing effects of plant diversity across spatial scales and climatic gradients. More species-diverse communities are more stable. Ok, what about agricultural systems though? Financial profitability of diversified farming systems: A global meta-analysis. Total costs, gross income and profits were higher in diversified systems, and benefit-cost ratio similar to simplified systems.
Brainfood: Food insecurity drivers, Agroecology & fertilizers ...
Oct 9, 2023 · Drivers and stressors of resilience to food insecurity: evidence from 35 countries. Diversify! The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. ...but that doesn't mean agroecology is wrong. So, diversify your mind? Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it.
Brainfood: Biodiversity nexus, Nutrition interventions, European …
Jun 3, 2024 · Understanding the role of biodiversity in the climate, food, water, energy, transport and health nexus in Europe. Meta-analysis shows that a lot of things people do affect biodiversity negatively, yet biodiversity affects most things people want to do positively. Food Systems Interventions for Nutrition: Lessons from 6 Program Evaluations in Africa and South Asia. Have … Continue reading ...
Agricultural biodiversity and conflict
Dec 8, 2021 · The papers that compose this issue evidence how an integrative approach is not only analytically beneficial but also necessary for research supporting the sustainable resolution of conflict, the related conservation of agrobiodiversity and equitable human-environment relations. Gabriel Tamariz and Megan Baumann have co-organized and co-edited a special issue of Geoforum on "Agrobiodiversity ...
Articles - Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Oct 8, 2009 · Jacob van Etten continues our coffee-table conversation about whether crops determine everything. All of this started off with Wittfogel’s Oriental despotism and how crops (rice) and cropping technologies (irrigation) give shape to whole societies.Jeremy mentioned Malcolm Gladwell, who argues in Outliers that Asians are good in math because they grow rice.
Forests & trees - Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Sep 23, 2024 · The authors of book “Moving Crops and the Scales of History” have been awarded the Edelstein Prize 2024 for their work to “redefine historical inquiry based on the ‘cropscape’: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop.” Let’s see how many cropscapes we can come up with today.
Organic agriculture – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Oct 17, 2024 · Landrace in situ (on-farm) conservation: European Union achievements.Lots of organizations and farmers are conserving landraces in Europe, in lots of ways, and pretty successfully, but the most sustainable way to do so would be to decrease barriers to their marketing, in particular in the context of organic agriculture.