"Assembling the efforts and expertise of a diverse and well-qualified set of authors, this book addresses a wide range of topics, yet the essays clearly cohere. The perspective is global, which will make the book the single most authoritative source to date on issues of agrobiodiversity." -- Thomas K. Rudel, professor of sociology and human ecology, Rutgers University
Acknowledgments Contributors 1. Biodiversity Agriculture and Ecosystem Services 2. Measuring Managing and Maintaining Crop Genetic Diversity 3. An Entry Point to Crop Genetic Diversity 4. Seed Systems and Crop Genetic Diversity in Agroecosystems of Livestock Genetic Resources 5. Measures of Diversity as Inputs for Decisions in Conservation of Livestock Genetic Resources 6. Management of Farm Animal Ge ne tic Resources: Change and Interaction 7. Aquatic Biodiversity in Rice- Based Ecosystems 8. Pollinator Services 9. Management of Soil Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems 10. Diversity and Pest Management in Agroecosystems: Some Perspectives from Ecology 11. Managing Crop Disease in Traditional Agroecosystems: Benefits and Hazards of Genetic Diversity 12. Crop Variety Diversification for Disease Control 13. Managing Biodiversity in Spatially and Temporally Complex Agricultural Landscapes 14. Diversity and Innovation in Smallholder Systems in Response to Environmental and Economic Changes 15. Agrobiodiversity, Diet, and Human Health 16. Comparing the Choices of Farmers and Breeders: The Value of Rice Landraces in Nepal 17. Economics of Livestock Genetic Resources Conservation and Sustainable Use: State of the Art 18. Ecological and Economic Roles of Biodiversity in Agroecosystems Index
Devra I. Jarvis is senior scientist, Agricultural Biodiversity and Ecosystems, in the Diversity for Livelihoods Programme at Bioversity International (As of December 1, 2006, the International Plant Genetics Resources Institute (IPGRI) changed its name to Bioversity International) in Rome. Having earned a Ph.D. in quaternary palynology from the University of Washington, Seattle, she is responsible for Bioversity's work on developing practices that use local crop genetic diversity to maintain and improve productivity, resilience, and resistance in production systems. She is the principal author of A Training Guide for In Situ Conservation On-Farm, which has been translated into Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese. Before joining Bioversity in 1996, Jarvis worked for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), first in China, where she was responsible for monitoring and evaluating WFP's development programs, and then in Uganda, where she was Chief of WFP's Emergency and Relief Programme for Sudanese, Rwandan, and Zairian refugees. Christine Padoch is the Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden. She is an anthropologist and was associate scientific coordinator of the People, Land Management, and Environmental Conservation (PLEC-UNU) Programme. She is also the author and editor of a number of books, including Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use and People of the Tropical Rain Forest. H. D. Cooper is senior programme officer for implementation and technical support at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Montreal. He coordinated the development of the CBD's program of work on agricultural biodiversity and the preparation of the Food and Agriculture Organization's report The State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. He is editor of the book Broadening the Genetic Base of Crop Production and lead author of the Biodiversity Synthesis report and the chapters on food and cultivated systems of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessement.
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