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Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets - Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets - Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural
biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between
proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural
modernisation. This book argues that neither position does justice
to the range of strategies that farmers use to manage
agrobiodiversity and other livelihood assets as they adapt to
changing social, economic, and environmental circumstances.
Chapters explore relationships between the exploitation and
conservation of agricultural biodiversity and the livelihoods of
agricultural communities, and evaluate the capacity of national and
multilateral institutions and policy settings to support the
protection and capture by communities of agrobiodiversity values.
The place of ecosystem services in valuing biodiversity in the
marketplace is emphasized. A number of authors assess the potential
for market-based instruments and initiatives to encourage the
protection of biodiversity, while others compare
agrobiodiversity/community relationships, and the effectiveness of
instruments designed to enhance these, across international
boundaries. The book takes a comparative approach, drawing on
empirical case studies from across the developed and developing
worlds. In doing so, the book does not simply point to similarities
and differences in the experience of rural communities. It also
shows how global trade and multilateral institutions bring these
otherwise disparate communities together in networks that exploit
and/or preserve agrobiodiversity and other resources.
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