On-farm Conservation Approaches for Agricultural Biodiversity in Nepal

On-farm conservation of agricultural biodiversity in Nepal

The basic diversity data of landraces has been found important to monitor the dynamics of crop genetic resource management. The diversity data generated in time and space have been valuable to communtities, scientists and policy managers to formulate and implement conservation strategies of in situ, on-farm as well as ex situ conservation and management of genetic resources. In this paper, we d...

The economics of conserving agricultural biodiversity on-farm

Conserving agricultural biodiversity for use in sustainable food systems Conservation

Pesticide use and biodiversity conservation in the Amazonian agricultural frontier.

Agricultural frontiers are dynamic environments characterized by the conversion of native habitats to agriculture. Because they are currently concentrated in diverse tropical habitats, agricultural frontiers are areas where the largest number of species is exposed to hazardous land management practices, including pesticide use. Focusing on the Amazonian frontier, we show that producers have var...

Integrating agricultural landscapes with biodiversity conservation in the Mesoamerican hotspot.

CELIA A. HARVEY,∗‡‡‡ OLIVER KOMAR,† ROBIN CHAZDON,‡ BRUCE G. FERGUSON,§ BRYAN FINEGAN,∗∗ DANIEL M. GRIFFITH,†† MIGUEL MARTÍNEZ-RAMOS,‡‡ HELDA MORALES,§ RONALD NIGH,§§ LORENA SOTO-PINTO,§ MICHIEL VAN BREUGEL,∗∗∗ AND MARK WISHNIE††† ∗Department of Agriculture and Agroforestry, CATIE, Apdo 7170, Turrialba, Costa Rica †Programa de Ciencias para la Conservación, SalvaNATURA, Colonia Flor Blanca, 33 ...