Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity

Agricultural biodiversity includes all components of biological diversity of relevance to food and agriculture: the variety and variability of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem level which are necessary to sustain key functions in the agro-ecosystem, its structures and processes. This sourcebook comprises a total of 75 articles. The collection of articles is intentionally diverse, addressing topics ranging from international treaties, legislation, policy, community processes, local knowledge, field-level interventions and methodological issues. There is, however, a predominance of article on crops.