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Background, links and documentation on Agricultural Biodiversity Decisions (COP Decisions III/11, IV/6, V/5, VI/5 + VI/6 (on the International Seed Treaty), VII/3, VIII/23 and IX/1) and the implementation of the CBD's Agricultural Biodiversity work programme .

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Agricultural Biodiversity Preserving while producing Agricultural biodiversity provides not only food and income but also raw materials for clothing, shelter, medicines, breeding new varieties, and performs other services such as maintenance of soil fertility and biota, and soil and water
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22. Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Ecosystems

Book that describes how farmers manage agricultural biodiversity to enhance the stability, resilience, and productivity of their farms: important for food production, global biodiversity and impacts of climate change.

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Newly published research papers reveal the potential of minor millets to improve peopleâ€™s lives in southern India. Bioversity is partnering with UNESCO to identify and safeguard threatened foodways in two Kenyan communities. A rare collection of figs, sour cherries, pears and apples faces an
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23. Living Farms - Food Sovereignty through Sustainable Agriculture

Reports about efforts to re-establish local control over food and farming systems through the conservation, renewal and rejuvenation of biodiversity by means of sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. Website contains papers, case studies, links

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Living farms is an organisation working to provide food sovereignty for the small and marginal farmers in India.
Living Farms works with landless, small and marginal farmers and consumers in Orissa, India to improve food and nutrition security, food safety and to uphold food sovereignty . Sustainable agriculture and Natural Resource Management is our key strategy. Living Farms works on food sovereignty by

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24. Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR)

As an outcome of an International Workshop "Managing Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustainable Development" held in Nairobi, Kenya, an agricultural biodiversity research platform was set up, with secretariat supplied by Bioversity International, Rome. Site provides current links, relevant papers and proposed programme of work including agricultural biodiversity and climate change.

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25. Sustaining Local Food Systems, Agricultural Biodiversity and Local Livelihoods

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Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research Many may not know them, but there are several indigenous communities seeking to revitalize indigenous peoples' food systems and thereby define the food and agriculture of their choice; these are the real champions and stewards of agrobiodiversity . is being
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An IIED programme identifying how decentralised governance, farmer participation and capacity building promote the adaptive management of agricultural biodiversity in the context of local food systems and livelihoods. Case studies in India, Indonesia, Iran, Peru. Packed with relevant publications and multimedia presentations.

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policy - research - climate - ecology - urban - economics - sustainability The page you requested does not exist. For your convenience, a search was performed using the query natural OR resources OR key OR issues OR food OR agriculture OR sustaining OR local OR food OR systems OR agricultural OR
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26. Who Owns Nature?

This 100th issue of the ETC CommuniquA© updates Oligopoly, Inc. â€“ the ongoing series tracking corporate concentration in the life industry. It analyses the past three decades of agribusiness efforts to monopolize the 24% of living nature that has been commodified, and exposes a new strategy to capture the remaining three-quarters that has, until now, remained beyond the market economy.

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ETC Group is an international civil society organization dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. We work on international trade and development issues related to agriculture, biodiversity and emerging technologies which have included analysis of geoengineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology (and the global governance of these technologies as well as corporate involvement in their development). El Grupo ETC se dedica a la conservaciÃ³n y promociÃ³n de la diversidad cultural y ecolÃ³gica y los derechos humanos.
ETC Group - Monitoring Power, Tracking Technology, Strengthening Diversity. In this 100th issue of the ETC Communiqué we update Oligopoly, Inc. – our ongoing series tracking corporate concentration in the life industry. We also analyze the past three decades of agribusiness efforts to

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27. Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)

Website of IUCN's Commission with four Working Groups. This group on Sustainable Livelihoods covers community-based, equitable and sustainable management of natural resources, especially agricultural biodiversity. Site provides information on strategy, project reports, publications, links to community and partners' activities.

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Theme on Sustainable Livelihoods (TSL) The Theme on Sustainable Livelihoods (TSL) of CEESP is concerned with local aspects of environmental sustainability and community well being, in other words with community-based, equitable and sustainable management of natural resources, the generation of
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28. Biodiverse agriculture for a changing climate

Briefing summarising solutions to climate change challenges through using more biodiverse, ecological approaches to food provision. Links to further papers on climate change adaptation and mitigation through agriculture.

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