Cultivating Biodiversity to Transform Agriculture

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hainzelin, Étienne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Ecosystems.; Plant ecology.; Nature conservation.; Sustainable development.; Life Sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Nature Conservation.; Plant Ecology.

Agriculture is the primary human activity: it involves 1.3 billion people, nearly a quarter of the world’s population and half of its labour force. The cultivated area, i.e., the area where humans plan and directly control the vegetation cover, now represents over 20% of the landmass. Faced with the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Biodiversity has always been at the heart of agricultural activity
• 2. The challenges of agricultural transformation
• 3. Intensifying ecological processes to transform agricultural performance
• 4. Agrobiodiversity, the main lever of this ecological intensification
• 5. Ecological intensification, a strategic priority for CIRAD
• 6. A book with six viewpoints
• 7. Bibliographical references
• Chapter 1 The diversity of living organisms: the engine for ecological functioning
• 1. Diversity and unity of living organisms: the successive revolutions of the biological sciences
• 2. A history closely linked to man’s
• 3. Documented risks of erosion of agrobiodiversity
• 4. Why ‘cultivate’ biodiversity?
• 5. What is the best way of understanding the extraordinary complexity of living organisms and agroecosystems?
• 6. Agrobiodiversity: a development issue?
• 7. Conclusion
• 8. Bibliographical references
• Chapter 2 From artificialization to the ecologization of cropping systems
• 1. The impasses in the artificialization of cropping systems
• 2. Opportunities and limitations of cropping systems that promote biodiversity
• 3. Towards new ‘ecologically innovative’ cropping systems
• 4. Conclusion
• 5. Bibliographical references
• Chapter 3 Rethinking plant breeding
• 1. Plant breeding: the past and the present
• 2. Recent changes and developments
• 3. The challenges of ecologically intensive agriculture
• 4. Mechanisms to help meet the challenges of ecological intensification5. Conclusion
• 6. Bibliographical references
• Chapter 4 Ecological interactions within the biodiversity of cultivated systems
• 1. Biodiversity and pest control
• 2. Hidden soil diversity: what potential for agriculture?
• 3. Biodiversity and agriculture-livestock interactions
• 4. Conclusion
• 5. Bibliographical references
• Chapter 5 Conserving and cultivating agricultural genetic diversity: transcending established divides
• 1. History of the conservation of genetic resources in agriculture
• 2. International strategies and policies in favour of mobilizing genetic diversity
• 3. Need for in situ conservation and complementarities with ex situ conservation
• 4. Conclusion: hybridization or co-evolution of conservation models
• 5. Bibliographical references
• Chapter 6 Towards biodiverse agricultural systems: reflecting on the technological, social and institutional changes at stake
• 1. Co-evolution between technical dynamics and social dynamics: an analysis which starts upstream of agriculture
• 2. Recent changes in agriculture and food systems: market dynamics and new directions
• 3. Conclusion
• 4. Bibliographical references
• List of authors.