Agrobiodiversity management for food security : a critical review /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Agrobiodiversity.; Food security.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Food Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Meteorology and Climate.; Biological Resources (General); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Plants.; Agricultural policy.; Biodiversity.; Climatic change.; Environmental policy.; Food crops.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Improved varieties.; Management.; Plant genetic resources.; Transgenic plants.; Electronic books.
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This book aims to build on and extend the wealth of information presented in a previous book, Agrobiodiversity: Characterization, Utilization and Management (Wood and Lenn,̌ 1999), to show how agrobiodiversity can effectively and efficiently be managed for food security. Chapter 1 revisits the role...

Table of Contents:

• Agrobiodiversity revisited / J.M. Lenné and D. Wood
• Food security and agrobiodiversity management / J.M. Lenné
• Agrobiodiversity management and the origins of agriculture / D. Wood
• Crop introduction and agrobiodiversity management / D. Wood
• Utilization of crop diversity for food security / J.M. Lenné and D. Wood
• Impact of introduction of modern varieties on crop diversity / J.R. Witcombe, K.D. Joshi, D.S. Virk and B.R. Sthapit
• Transgenics can enhance crop-diversity : under certain circumstances / J. Gressel
• Management of crop-associated biodiversity above-ground / J.M. Lenné
• Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning below-ground / T.W. Kuyper and K.E. Giller
• Agrobiodiversity conservation policy : a "tragedy of errors" / D. Wood and J.M. Lenné
• Can the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) approach ensure future food security? / D. Wood and J.M. Lenné
• Agrobiodiversity management for climate change / R. Ortiz
• Agricultural revolutions and their enemies : lessons for policy makers / J.M. Lenné and D. Wood.