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Thematic Focus: Agricultural Biodiversity
Garden Variety
Crop improvement, environmental sustainability and higher farm
incomes all depend on agricultural biodiversity - as does simply
consuming a healthy, balanced diet.
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Interview
with Carlos Seré
Carlos Seré, Director General of the International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI), explains why genebanks and other
measures are needed to protect livestock diversity, which is
essential for ensuring world food supplies. |
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Research Highlights
The Other
Bottom Billion
Healthy agriculture and ecosystems ultimately depend on preserving
biodiversity at the base of the food chain, where a billion
organisms can live in a handful of soil.
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Jungle
Idol
A participatory tree-domestication program hunts down the
best-performing individual trees in the forest and teaches farmers
how to clone them. |
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Plastic
Fantastic
A simple barrier technology has been tested in the Andes that
prevents the spread of potato pests while protecting the
biodiversity of insects, including predators of pests. |
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Start Small
to Win Big
Payment schemes to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation are
most likely to secure benefits, including biodiversity protection,
if they target smallholders. |
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'Remember Me?'
Mealybug pest followed cassava from South America to Southeast Asia
and now a parasitic wasp is tagging along to hold the mealybug
population in check. |
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Modulation
to Minor
Scientists fighting the epidemic of Ug99 wheat stem rust aim to
breed durable resistance by shifting from major to minor resistance
genes - again and again. |
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A Safe
Investment
Aflasafe® is a win-win formula for African farmers and investors
that uses otherwise harmless fungi to control those that produce
deadly aflatoxins in maize and peanut. |
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Rice
Plus
Modern farmers should preserve their rice lands' diverse
terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic plants and animals that
contribute nutrition, medicines and income. |
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Diverse
Approaches
A multipronged strategy applies an array of technologies, from
germplasm conservation to geographic information systems, to stem
biodiversity loss. |
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