Home Gardens And Agrobiodiversity

Author : Pablo B. Eyzaguirre,Olga F. Linares
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588342881

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Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre,Olga F. Linares Pdf

Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations. After introducing theoretical and methodological aspects of studying home garden culture, scientists and conservationists present case studies of ways in which garden practices in tropical areas contribute to agricultural biodiversity and sustainability. Eyzaguirre and Linares conclude that home gardens play key roles as both cultural and biological spaces.

Author : Pablo B. Eyzaguirre,Olga F. Linares
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588342881

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Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre,Olga F. Linares Pdf

Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains how both rural and urban households manage home garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change, and adapt their crops to new situations. After introducing theoretical and methodological aspects of studying home garden culture, scientists and conservationists present case studies of ways in which garden practices in tropical areas contribute to agricultural biodiversity and sustainability. Eyzaguirre and Linares conclude that home gardens play key roles as both cultural and biological spaces.

Author : Danny Hunter,Emilita Monville-Oro,Bessie Burgos,Carmen Nyhria Roel,Blesilda M. Calub,Julian Gonsalves,Nina Lauridsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429620645

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Agrobiodiversity, School Gardens and Healthy Diets by Danny Hunter,Emilita Monville-Oro,Bessie Burgos,Carmen Nyhria Roel,Blesilda M. Calub,Julian Gonsalves,Nina Lauridsen Pdf

This book critically assesses the role of agrobiodiversity in school gardens and its contribution to diversifying diets, promoting healthy eating habits and improving nutrition among schoolchildren as well as other benefits relating to climate change adaptation, ecoliteracy and greening school spaces. Many schoolchildren suffer from various forms of malnutrition and it is important to address their nutritional status given the effects it has on their health, cognition, and subsequently their educational achievement. Schools are recognized as excellent platforms for promoting lifelong healthy eating and improving long-term, sustainable nutrition security required for optimum educational outcomes. This book reveals the multiple benefits of school gardens for improving nutrition and education for children and their families. It examines issues such as school feeding, community food production, school gardening, nutritional education and the promotion of agrobiodiversity, and draws on international case studies, from both developed and developing nations, to provide a comprehensive global assessment. This book will be essential reading for those interested in promoting agrobiodiversity, sustainable nutrition and healthy eating habits in schools and public institutions more generally. It identifies recurring and emerging issues, establishes best practices, identifies key criteria for success and advises on strategies for scaling up and scaling out elements to improve the uptake of school gardens.

Author : Jessica W. Watson
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9789290435174

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Home Gardens and in Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources in Farming Systems by Jessica W. Watson Pdf

Author : Karl S. Zimmerer,Stef De Haan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262549691

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Agrobiodiversity by Karl S. Zimmerer,Stef De Haan Pdf

Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market forces to affect agriculture and food production systems on local, national, and global scales. The increasing simplification of food systems, the continuing decline of plant species, and the ongoing spread of pests and disease threaten biodiversity in agriculture as well as the sustainability of food resources. Complicating the situation further, the multiple systems involved—cultural, economic, environmental, institutional, and technological—are driven by human decision making, which is inevitably informed by diverse knowledge systems. The interactions and linkages that emerge necessitate an integrated assessment if we are to make progress toward sustainable agriculture and food systems. This volume in the Strüngmann Forum Reports series offers insights into the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and sustainability and proposes an integrative framework to guide future research, scholarship, policy, and practice. The contributors offer perspectives from a range of disciplines, including plant and biological sciences, food systems and nutrition, ecology, economics, plant and animal breeding, anthropology, political science, geography, law, and sociology. Topics covered include evolutionary ecology, food and human health, the governance of agrobiodiversity, and the interactions between agrobiodiversity and climate and demographic change.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251305294

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Agrobiodiversity - a training manual for farmer groups in East Africa by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Farmers play a crucial role in the preservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity. In fact, the diversity of species that support our current agricultural production systems has been carefully managed and shaped by farming communities, over the course of the history of humankind. Farmers act as custodian of the Earth’s agrobiodiversity resources, and play a big part in preserving traditional plant and animal varieties, and the knowledge associated with these. FAO has long been working on promoting approaches to agriculture that enable both the sustainable use of biodiversity resources for food and agriculture, and their conservation, and on supporting farmers to make informed decisions on their farm management and production practices. This training manual fits in this broader commitment, to support a shift towards a paradigm of agricultural production that can sustain food and nutrition security while at the same time cause the least harm to natural ecosystems. The manual is intended as an introduction to agricultural biodiversity, and to its relevance to different aspects of agricultural production and management for smallholder farmers in Kenya. It includes eight different training modules, each covering a specific aspect related to agrobiodiversity. The modules are standalone and can be used independently one from the other, depending on the user’s or project’s aim. The materials were originally prepared within the FAO- Netherlands Partnership Programme (FNPP) and have been updated, revised and published under the second phase of the European Union-funded project “Capacity-building related to multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries”.

Author : D. Hashini Galhena Dissanayake,Karimbhai M. Maredia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781315471754

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Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods by D. Hashini Galhena Dissanayake,Karimbhai M. Maredia Pdf

Home Gardens for Improved Food Security and Livelihoods demonstrates how home gardens hold particular significance for resource-poor and marginalized communities in developing countries, and how they offer a versatile strategy toward building local and more resilient food systems. With food and nutritional security being a major global challenge, there is an urgent need to find innovative ways to increase food production and diversify food sources while increasing income-generating opportunities for communities faced with hunger and poverty. This book shows that when implemented properly, home gardens can become just such an innovative solution, as well as an integral part of sustainable food security programs. It provides a conceptual overview of social, economic, environmental and nutritional issues related to home gardening in diverse contexts, including gender issues and biodiversity conservation, and presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America highlighting home gardening experiences and initiatives. The volume concludes with a synthesis of key lessons learned and ways forward for further enhancing home gardens for sustainable food security and development. This book will be a useful read for students and scholars working on local food systems, food security, sustainable development and more broadly development strategy.

Author : Arwen Bailey,Pablo Eyzaguirre
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Agrobiodiversity conservation
ISBN : 9789290438106

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Crop genetic resources in European home gardens: Proceedings of a Workshop, 3-4 October 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia by Arwen Bailey,Pablo Eyzaguirre Pdf

Author : Ekin Birol, Andreas Kontoleon, and Melinda Smale
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Methods to Assess the Private Value of Agrobiodiversity in Hungarian Home Gardens by Ekin Birol, Andreas Kontoleon, and Melinda Smale Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Home Gardens in Nepal by Anonim Pdf

Author : B.M. Kumar,P.K.R. Nair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402049484

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Tropical Homegardens by B.M. Kumar,P.K.R. Nair Pdf

‘Homegardens’ are integrated tree–crop–animal production systems, often established on small parcels of land surrounding homesteads, and primarily found in tropical environments. This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from the world’s leading researchers and professionals in this topic. It summarizes the current state of knowledge on homegarden systems, with a view to using this knowledge as a basis for improving both homegardens and other similar multistrata agroforestry systems.

Author : Teja Tscharntke,Christoph Leuschner,Manfred Zeller,Edi Guhardja,Arifuddin Bidin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540302902

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Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins by Teja Tscharntke,Christoph Leuschner,Manfred Zeller,Edi Guhardja,Arifuddin Bidin Pdf

Tropical rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, causing unprecedented losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic systems of tropical rain forest margins, as well as striving to integrate environmental, technological and socio-economic issues in their solution.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9789251337097

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Fruit and vegetables – your dietary essentials by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 (IYFV), as declared by the UN General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/74/244, aims at raising awareness of, directing policy attention to, and sharing good practices on the nutritional and health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption, the contribution of fruit and vegetable consumption to the promotion of diversified, balanced and healthy diets and lifestyles, and reducing loss and waste of fruits and vegetables. This background paper outlines the benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption, but also examines the various aspects of the fruit and vegetable sector from a food systems approach: from sustainable production and trade to loss and waste management. This paper provides an overview of the sector and a framework and a starting point for discussion for the Year, highlighting the interlinkages of stakeholders and key issues to be considered for action during the IYFV.

Author : Andreas W. Ebert,Johannes M. M. Engels
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783036508948

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Plant Biodiversity and Genetic Resources by Andreas W. Ebert,Johannes M. M. Engels Pdf

The papers included in this Special Issue address a variety of important aspects of plant biodiversity and genetic resources, including definitions, descriptions, and illustrations of different components and their value for food and nutrition security, breeding, and environmental services. Furthermore, comprehensive information is provided regarding conservation approaches and techniques for plant genetic resources, policy aspects, and results of biological, genetic, morphological, economic, social, and breeding-related research activities. The complexity and vulnerability of (plant) biodiversity and its inherent genetic resources, as an integral part of the contextual ecosystem and the human web of life, are clearly demonstrated in this Special Issue, and for several encountered problems and constraints, possible approaches or solutions are presented to overcome these.

Author : Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agrobiodiversity conservation
ISBN : 9789290436966

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On Farm Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity in Nepal: Managing diversity and promoting its benefits by Bhuwon Ratna Sthapit Pdf