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… are considered crucial by farmers who therefore engage in farming practices in which the use of PGRFA, or … that target beneficiaries should be first and foremost small-scale farmers and local communities9. Aside from a focus on …

… and protecting them is designed to enable farmers and farming communities to continue performing their role as … the important role and contribution of family and small-scale farming in sustaining world food security, particularly …

… plant diversity has been the raw material that enabled farming systems and agriculture to evolve. Food plants have … varieties continues to be maintained on-farm by poor, small-scale farmers who rely on traditional crop varieties to meet …

… to say that plant genetic diversity is more important for farming than any other environmental factor, because it … of continuous management and innovation by farmers, a small range of initial crops and varieties evolved into an … other cereals in the 1960s and 1970s. While on a global scale, this contributed to a substantial increase in food …

… to more intensified production. In contrast to traditional farming systems where agricultural inputs were mainly … from 85 percent to 100 percent. At the other end of the scale we have for example Bangladesh where the figures range … proportion of this legacy is derived from a remarkably small number of original species, the dissemination of which …

… With this decline, agrobiodiversity is disappearing; the scale of the loss is extensive. With the disappearance of … on fragile areas, forests and endangered species * Make farming systems more stable, robust, and sustainable * … preferences and living conditions; ≠ marginalization of small-scale, diverse food production systems that conserve …

… environmentally adjusted national income or Green GDP. To scale valuation efforts to national level, sustained long … in Western Ghats. However, the extrapolated values from small case study or sample areas to the Western Ghats region … is also used for commercial salt production and shrimp farming. River Ken Brij Gopal and Dinesh Marothia, Center for …

… seeking to conserve natural resources on a global scale. It is still the only world-wide treaty which restrains … one’s own wetlands, would work satisfactorily with a small number of Parties. On the other hand, a convention to … as ducks, flamingos and herons. The third dealt with farming for waterfowl and the prevention of crop damage. The …

… river ba- sin from natural vegetation to arable farming and cattle grazing. Removal of the natural vegetation … of the withdrawal will be negligible – only a very small percentage of the overall flow – but will bring huge … banks. While both states B and C experience these large scale natural disasters, state B is being hit the hardest, …

… two years. The initial draft of the Guide, prepared by a small group of authors, was the starting point for an … the development of all the major crops and animals used in farming today, and continue to be of central importance in … cash crops or traditional crops and dis- ruption of small scale farming systems that are prevalent in developing …