1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Biodiversity
The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs. In recent decades, there has been increased appreciation of the risk this implies for food security and quality, especially in times of environmental change. As a result, agricultural biodiversity has moved to the top of research and policy agendas.
This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of agricultural biodiversity in a series of specially commissioned chapters. It draws on multiple disciplines including plant and animal genetics, ecology, crop and animal science, food studies and nutrition, as well as social science subjects which explore the socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal and policy aspects of agricultural biodiversity. It focuses not only on the core requirements to deliver a sustainable agriculture and food supply, but also highlights the additional ecosystem services provided by a diverse and resilient agricultural landscape and farming practices. The book provides an indispensable reference textbook for a wide range of courses in agriculture, ecology, biodiversity conservation and environmental studies.
Introduction
Danny Hunter, Luigi Guarino, Charles Spillane and Peter C. McKeown
Part 1 Biological Resources for Agricultural Biodiversity
- Plant genetic resources
- Animal domestication, genetic diversity and genomic analysis
- Forest and tree genetic resources
- Wild plant and animal genetic resources
- Aquatic genetic resources
- Pests, predators and parasitoids
- Pollinators
- Soil biodiversity and bacterial and mycorrhizal resources
- Genetic aspects of crop domestication
- Evolution and domestication of clonal crops
- Agricultural biodiversity and the Columbian exchange
- The Green Revolution and crop biodiversity
- Agroecology: using functional biodiversity to design productive and resilient polycultural systems
- The role of trees in agroecology
- The quality of the agricultural matrix and long term conservation of biodiversity
- Agricultural biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services
- Leveraging agricultural biodiversity for crop improvement
- Neglected no more: leveraging under-utilized crops to address global challenges
- Agricultural biodiversity, resilience, adaptation and climate change
- An argument for integrating wild and agricultural biodiversity conservation
- Harvesting common ground: maximizing the co-benefits of agrobiodiversity and human health
- Edible insect diversity for food and nutrition
- Cultural heritage and agrobiodiversity
- Holding on to agrobiodiversity: human nutrition and health of Indigenous Peoples
- Agricultural biodiversity for healthy diets and food systems
- Law, policy and agricultural biodiversity
- Using access and benefit sharing policies to support climate change adaptation
- ‘Stewardship’ or ‘ownership’: how to realise Farmers’ Rights?
- Land-use retention and change to improve agricultural biodiversity
- Markets, consumer demand and agricultural biodiversity
- Community biodiversity management
- The role and importance of agricultural biodiversity in urban agriculture
- Gender and agricultural biodiversity
- Seed systems: managing, using and creating crop genetic resources
- Uncovering the role of custodian farmers in the on-farm conservation of agricultural biodiversity
- Agricultural biodiversity conservation and management – the role of ex situ approaches
- Seeds to keep and seeds to share: the multiple roles of community seed banks
- 'Because it is ours': farmers’ knowledge, innovation and identity in the making of agricultural biodiversity
- Landscapes of loss and remembrance in agrobiodiversity conservation
- From participatory plant breeding to local innovation networks in Cuba
- Strengthening institutions and organizations, and building capacity for the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity
- Information, knowledge and agricultural biodiversity
- Biodiversity is given life by small-scale food providers: defending agricultural biodiversity and ecological food provision in the framework of food sovereignty
Robert Henry
David A. Magee, David E. MacHugh & Ceiridwen J. Edwards
David Boshier, Judy Loo & Ian Dawson
Verina Ingram, Barbara Vinceti & Nathalie van Vliet
Devin Bartley & Matthias Halwart
Geoff Gurr, David J. Perović & Kris Le Mottee
Barbara Gemmill-Herren
Fenton Beed, Thomas Dubois, Danny Coyne, Didier Lesueur & Srini Ramasamy
Part 2 The Origins & History of Agricultural Biodiversity
Paul Gepts
Peter J. Matthews
David E. Williams
Prabhu L. Pingali
Miguel A. Altieri, Clara I. Nicholls & Marcos A. Lana
Roger R. B. Leakey
Part 3 The Value of Agricultural Biodiversity
Ivette Perfecto & John Vandemeer
Fabrice deClerk
Rodomiro Ortiz
Gennifer Meldrum & Stefano Padulosi
Brenda B. Lin
Simon J. Attwood, Sarah E. Park, Paul Marshall, John H. Fanshawe & Hannes Gaisberger
Part 4 Agricultural Biodiversity: Human Health and Wellbeing
Cristina Romanelli & Cristina Tirado
Wendy Lu McGill, Komi K. M. Fiabue, Sunday Ekesi & Sevgan Subramanian
†Juliana Ferraz Da Rocha Santilli
Harriet V. Kuhnlein
Jessica E. Raneri & Gina Kennedy
Part 5 The Drivers of Agricultural Biodiversity
†Juliana Ferraz Da Rocha Santilli
Ana Bedmar Villanueva, Isabel López Noriega, Michael Halewood, Gloria Otieno & Ronnie Vernooy
Regine Andersen
Craig Pearson
Matthias Jaeger, Alessandra Giuliani & Irene van Loosen
Walter de Boef & Abishkar Subedi
Gudrun B. Keding, Celine Termote & Katja Kehlenbeck
Janice Jiggins
Niels P. Louwaars
Part 6 Safeguarding Agricultural Biodiversity
Bhuwon Sthapit, V. Ramanatha Rao, Hugo Lamers and Sajal Sthapit
Ehsan Dulloo, Jean Hanson & Bhuwon Sthapit
Ronnie Vernooy, Pitambar Shrestha & Bhuwon Sthapit
Dan Taylor
Virginia D. Nazarea
Humberto Ríos Labrada and Juan Ceballos-Müller
Johannes Engels & Per Rudebjer
Dag Endresen
Patrick Mulvany
Biography
Danny Hunter is a Senior Scientist in the Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems Initiative at Bioversity International, Rome, Italy, and is a member of the Healthy Food Systems node, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia.
Luigi Guarino is currently the Director of Science at the Global Crop Diversity Trust. He has been a consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and worked for the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (now Bioversity International), and for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (now the Pacific Community) in the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the South Pacific.
Charles Spillane is the Established Professor (Chair) of Plant Science, and Head of the Plant and AgriBiosciences Research Centre (PABC) at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Professor Spillane’s Genetics and Biotechnology Lab works on both fundamental and applied research on plant and agricultural biosciences.
Peter C. McKeown is a Lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, and Coordinator of the Masters in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (MSc.CCAFS).