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Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security: A Critical Review

By David Wood , Jillian M. Lenné

Book information

Publisher
CABI
Year
2011
ISBN
1845937619, 978-1-84593-761-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3517122 bytes)
Pages
256\247
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00

Description

Agrobiodiversity provides most of our food through our interaction with crops and domestic animals. Future global food security is firmly anchored in sound, science-based management of agrobiodiversity. This book presents key concepts of agrobiodiversity management, critically reviewing important current and emerging issues including agricultural development, crop introduction, practical diversity in farming systems, impact of modern crop varieties and GM crops, conservation, climate change, food sovereignty and policies. It will also address claims and misinformation in the subject based on sound scientific principles

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