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001 2003469615
003 DLC
005 20060520181448.0
008 030602s2003 it ab b i100 0 eng d
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050 00 $aS494.5.A43$bC64 2002
082 00 $a631.5/8$222
110 2 $aCommission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.$bRegular Session$n(9th :$d2002 :$cRome, Italy)
245 10 $aBiodiversity and the ecosystem approach in agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
246 1 $iSubtitle on cover:$aSatellite event on the occasion of the Ninth Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 12-13 October 2002 : proceedings
260 $aRome, Italy :$bFAO Inter-Departmental Working Group on Biological Diversity for Food and Agriculture,$cc2003.
300 $av, 312 p. :$bill., maps ;$c30 cm.
500 $a"TC/M/Y4586E/1/3.03/3000"--P. [4] of cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aThere are over 500 million farm management units in the world, overwhelmingly found in developing countries. FAO's ongoing field work in over 100,000 rural communities has found that all those farm managers can understand their farms, fields, forest, rangelands and fisheries as ecosystems. Farmers, even in the poorest and most food-insecure regions of the world, manage genes by their decision on crop varieties, manage species by their decisions on farm animals and manage ecosystems by their decision on soil pollination.
520 $aFarmers, fisherfolk, and forest dwellers not only understand and can apply ecosystem approaches in their decision-making, but also understand the potential impact of large-scale environmental threats to their livelihoods. FAO's biodiversity programmes apply ecosystem approaches to stimulate community level education and experiential learning by rural people. The same approaches educate national policy makers wishing to fulfill commitments made to environmental treaties while still meeting agricultural production demands.
650 0 $aAgrobiodiversity$vCongresses.
650 0 $aBiodiversity$vCongresses.
650 0 $aAgricultural ecology$vCongresses.
710 2 $aFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.