Over the last 50 years there has been a growing appreciation of the important role that farmers play in the development and conservation of crop genetic diversity, and the contribution of that diversity to agro-ecosystem resilience and food security. This book examines policies that aim to increa...
Halewood, Michael
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[Farmers' crop varieties and farmers' rights: challenges in taxonomy and law]
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Farmers' crop varieties and farmers' rights: challenges in taxonomy and law
The conservation of biodiversity and genetic resources has been a high priority under the Convention on Biological Diversity for more than a decade. Many studies have been conducted on this subject in tropical forests. The aim of this book is to bring together many of these studies in order to ev...
Poulsen, J.
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[Human impacts on tropical forest biodiversity and genetic resources]
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Human impacts on tropical forest biodiversity and genetic resources
This book encompasses inputs from science, policy making and development cooperation with regard to the linkages between climate change, sustainable livelihoods and biological diversity. It presents experiences, challenges and alternatives to scientists and practitioners for commonly assessing th...
Robledo, C.
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Kanninen, M.
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Pedroni, L.
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[Tropical forests and adaptation to climate change: in search of synergies]
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Tropical forests and adaptation to climate change: in search of synergies
The future of the biodiversity of the world's tropical forests is intensely debated in a number of international processes. A broad consensus is emerging from these processes that the threat to forest biodiversity is one of the major environmental challenges the world faces and action is required...
This book is a compilation of the abstracts of in-house and external publications produced in the year 2002 by CIFOR scientists and their collaborators. The abstracts are grouped into seven themes: general, biodiversity, forest governance and community forestry, forest management, non-timber fore...
Jiménez Jaén, J.J.
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Thomas, Richard J.
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[Nature's plow: soil macroinvertebrate communities in the neotropical savannas of Colombia]
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Nature's plow: soil macroinvertebrate communities in the neotropical savannas of Colombia
Dufour, D.L.
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[Etude des potentialités d`utilisation du manioc : Collaboration CIRAD-SAR/CIAT, rapport d`activité 1994]
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Etude des potentialités d`utilisation du manioc : Collaboration CIRAD-SAR/CIAT, rapport d`activité 1994