Agrobiodiversity : integrating knowledge for a sustainable future / edited by Karl S. Zimmerer and Stef de Haan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmerer, Karl S., editor.

Haan, Stef de, editor.

Series:

Strüngmann Forum reports

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agrobiodiversity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Integrating Agrobiodiversity Knowledge for a Sustainable Future p. 1 / Karl S. Zimmerer and Stef de Haan and Julia R. Lupp

Evolutionary Ecology, Agroecology, Conservation, and Cultural Interactions

2 Crop Evolutionary Agroecology: Genetic and Functional Dimensions of Agrobiodiversity and Associated Knowledge p. 21 / Kristin L. Mercer and Yves Vigouroux and Nora P. Castaneda-Álvarez and Stef de Haan and Robert J. Hijmans and Christian Leclerc and Doyle McKey and Steven J. Vanek

3 How Does Population Genetics Contribute to an Understanding of the Evolution of Agrobiodiversity? p. 63 / Yves Vigouroux and Christian Leclerc and Stef de Haan

4 Crop and Varietal Diversity Impacts on Agroecosystem Function and Resilience p. 79 / Steven J. Vanek

5 Spatial Analysis for Crop Genetic Resources Conservation: Selected Approaches for In and Ex Situ Efforts p. 103 / Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez and Robert J. Hijmans and Stef de Haan

Global Change and Socioecological Interactions

6 Socioecological Interactions amid Global Change p. 117 / Conny J. M. Almekinders and Glenn Davis Stone and Marci Baranski and Judith A. Carney and Jan Hanspach and Vijesh V. Krishna and Julian Ramirez- Villegas and Jacob van Etten and Karl S. Zimmerer

7 How Do Climate and Agro biodiversity Interact? p. 145 / Jacob van Etten

8 How Do Global Demographic and Spatial Changes Interact with Agrobiodiversity? p. 163 / Karl S. Zimmerer and Judith A. Carney

From Food and Human Diets to Nutrition, Health, and Disease

9 Agrobiodiversity and Feeding the World: More of the Same Will Result in More of the Same p. 185 / Anna Herforth and Timothy Johns and Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro and Andrew D. Jones and Colin K. Khoury and Timothy Lang and Patrick Maundu and Bronwen Powell and Victoria Reyes-García

10 Agricultural Biodiversity and Diets: Evidence, Indicators, and Next Steps p. 213 / Andrew D. Jones and Gina Kennedy and Jessica E. Raneri and Teresa Borelli and Danny Hunter and Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro

11 Exploring Pathways to Link Agrobiodiversity and Human Health p. 225 / Victoria Reyes-Garcia and Petra Benyei

Governance, Including Policy, Cultural, and Economic Frameworks

12 Indigenous Agrobiodiversity and Governance p. 241 / Gabriel Nemogá

13 Seeding Relations: Placemaking through Ecological, Social, and Political Networks as a Basis for Agrobiodiversity Governance p. 265 / Guntra A. Aistara

14 The Governance of Agrobiodiversity p. 283 / Bert Visser and Stephen B. Brush and Guntra A. Aistara and Regine Andersen and Matthias Jäger and Gabriel Nemogá and Martina Padmanabhan and Stephen G. Sherwood

15 How Have Markets Affected the Governance of Agrobiodiversity? p. 307 / Matthias Jäger and Irene van Loosen and Alessandra Giuliani.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262348805

0262348802

OCLC:

1078691368

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