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Biodiversity and the ecosystem approach in agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Rome, Italy : FAO Inter-Departmental Working Group on Biological Diversity for Food and Agriculture, c2003.Description: v, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9251049173
Other title:
  • Subtitle on cover: Satellite event on the occasion of the Ninth R egular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agri culture, Rome, 12-13 October 2002 : proceedings
Contained works:
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 631.5/8 22
Summary: There are over 500 million farm management units in the world, overw helmingly found in developing countries. FAO's ongoing field work in ov er 100,000 rural communities has found that all those farm managers can understand their farms, fields, forest, rangelands and fisheries as ec osystems. Farmers, even in the poorest and most food-insecure regions o f the world, manage genes by their decision on crop varieties, manage s pecies by their decisions on farm animals and manage ecosystems by thei r decision on soil pollination.Summary: Farmers, fisherfolk, and forest dwellers not only understand and can apply ecosystem approaches in their decision-making, but also understa nd the potential impact of large-scale environmental threats to their l ivelihoods. FAO's biodiversity programmes apply ecosystem approaches to stimulate community level education and experiential learning by rural people. The same approaches educate national policy makers wishing to fulfill commitments made to environmental treaties while still meeting agricultural production demands.
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There are over 500 million farm management units in the world, overw helmingly found in developing countries. FAO's ongoing field work in ov er 100,000 rural communities has found that all those farm managers can understand their farms, fields, forest, rangelands and fisheries as ec osystems. Farmers, even in the poorest and most food-insecure regions o f the world, manage genes by their decision on crop varieties, manage s pecies by their decisions on farm animals and manage ecosystems by thei r decision on soil pollination.

Farmers, fisherfolk, and forest dwellers not only understand and can apply ecosystem approaches in their decision-making, but also understa nd the potential impact of large-scale environmental threats to their l ivelihoods. FAO's biodiversity programmes apply ecosystem approaches to stimulate community level education and experiential learning by rural people. The same approaches educate national policy makers wishing to fulfill commitments made to environmental treaties while still meeting agricultural production demands.

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