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Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets - Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Stewart Lockie and David Carpenter
Earthscan
December 2009
Hardback 320 pp ISBN 9781844077762
£64.00
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Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive
polemic between proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural modernisation.
This book argues that neither position does justice to the range of strategies that farmers use to manage
agrobiodiversity and other livelihood assets as they adapt to changing social, economic, and environmental
circumstances. Chapters explore relationships between the exploitation and conservation of agricultural
biodiversity and the livelihoods of agricultural communities, and evaluate the capacity of national
and multilateral institutions and policy settings to support the protection and capture by communities
of agrobiodiversity values. The place of ecosystem services in valuing biodiversity in the marketplace
is emphasized. A number of authors assess the potential for market-based instruments and initiatives to
encourage the protection of biodiversity, while others compare agrobiodiversity/community relationships,
and the effectiveness of instruments designed to enhance these, across international boundaries.
The book takes a comparative approach, drawing on empirical case studies from across the developed
and developing worlds. In doing so, the book does not simply point to similarities and differences in the
experience of rural communities. It also shows how global trade and multilateral institutions bring these
otherwise disparate communities together in networks that exploit and/or preserve agrobiodiversity and
other resources.
Contents
Contributors
Preface
- Agriculture, Biodiversity And Markets
Part I: Agrobiodiversity in Context
- The Ecological Role and Enhancement of Biodiversity in Agroecosystems
- The Human Ecology of Agrobiodiversity
- Multilateral and National Regulatory Regimes for Agrobiodiversity
- Plant Breeders' Rights and On-Farm Seed-Saving
- International Biosecurity Frameworks to Protect Biodiversity with Emphasis on Science and Risk Assessment
Part II: Agriobiodiversity and Modernization
- Complementarity in the Conservation of Traditional and Modern Rice Genetic Resources on the Philippine
Island of Bohol
- The Contribution of Biodiversity to Modern Intensive Farming Systems
- Genetic Erosion and Degradation of Ecosystem Services of Wetland Rice Fields: A Case Study from
Western Ghats, India
Part III: Agrobiodiversity, Standards and Markets
- Environmental Certification: Standardization for Diversity
- Challenges of Global Environmental Governance by Non-state Actors in the Coffee
Industry: Insights from India, Indonesia and Vietnam
- Geographical Indicators
- Value Chain Coordination for Agroiodiversity Conservation
Part IV: Agrobiodiversity and Payment for Ecological Services
- Paying for Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes
- Targeting Payments for Ecological Services
- The 'Green Box': Multifunctionality and Biodiversity Conservation in Europe
- Market Instruments and Collective Obligations for On-Farm Biodiversity Conservation
CONCLUSION
- Agrobiodiversity and Sustainable Farm Livelihoods: Policy Implications and Imperatives
Index
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