Can biodiversity research change the future of agriculture

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“Can Biodiversity Research Change the Future of Agriculture? Lessons from Biocultural Landscapes”by Pablo B. EyzaguirreBio...

Bioversity’s unique role linking biodiversity, food security, resilience, livelihoods and culture<br />

How did we get this far?<br /><ul><li>20 years of global research showing where and how rural communities s people use agr...

15 years of research to show how gender and local knowledge encodes and unlocks the knowledge and potential of agrobiodive...

10 years of research to show the value in economic and more recently in nutritional and health terms of agricultural biodi...

5 years of research on how farmers use biodiversity for resilience and productivity

5 years of research on a global movement of bio-cultural custodians and innovators in key agrarian landscapes around the ...

Research on agrobiodiversity custodians and bio-cultural landscapes<br /> Bolivia<br />Tajikistan<br />Kyrgyzstan<br /> C...

Tomatoes are grown everywhere, but only a few places cultivate diversity <br />There are approximately 7500 tomato varieti...

Culture is the fast track for moving crops into new environments, finding new uses and values, enhancing genetic diversi...

Chayote (Sechiumedule)<br />Chayote is native to Mesoamerica. Cultures in Asia have been successful in cultivating it as w...

Farmers’ selection characters and disease in cassava<br />

The diversity of bottle gourd in Kenya<br />Various landraces of L.siceraria (bottle gourd) fruits in Kenya. <br /> Seeds ...

Findings<br />Origin<br />Diversity<br />Mutation<br />Hybridization<br />Diversifying selection<br />Maintenance<br />Sta...

Culture and plant use can support each other: The Kanyika Kitete Museum works to conserve gourds (Lagenaria) and Kamba ...

Taro in Cuban home gardens<br />Minimal management under coffee and fruit trees<br />Careful management in boxes<br />

Local Yunnan taro types distinguished by corm formation,taste and cooking quality<br />

Intensive intercropping of taro in paddy, an efficient and profitable agronomic practice in Asia<br />

In extensive low-input agriculture taro also has a place, taro cultivars are grown in swiddens in Southeast Asian hillside...

Preservation of food cultures that use all parts of the taro plant and taro in all its statuses from wild, ruderal cultiva...

Taro flowers travelling to urban market on a bicycle to be sold and then stir fried<br />

A new approach to biodiversityand agriculture<br />More than 1.1 billion people living within the world’s 25 biodiversity ...

The challenge we face: Biodiversity and feeding the world <br /><ul><li>Solving the problem with the same mentality that c...

Further simplification of production systems, crops and varieties, landscapes and food systems. No longer a viable option.

Instability in food prices, periodic health and food safety problems, growing demand for more diverse healthier locally so...

Can we put Bioversity’s vast body of research in a coherent context and at a scale where they present a global alternative...

innovation, and create new ways of producing food

linking to agriculture to consumers that promote healthier food and healthier agroecosystems

build on synergies among crop varieties, species and breeds, wild and cultivated spaces

foster a culture of renewed innovation and custodianship of bio-cultural diversity

embrace new demands by societies and consumers to know the diversity of their foods and support its future productivity ...

Linking food security, environment, culture, and markets

How significant is our target and our potential impact if we focus on small family farms practicing diversified bio-inte...

How much can small family farms and agrobiodiversity contribute to global food security in 2050?.</li></li></ul><li>Curre...

Population growth will be in developing countries that will need to double their production of food

the agricultural model to achieve this is increasing intensification and higher yielding crops and livestock systems.

Do agricultural systems and food system for future global food and nutrition security have to be the same as those that h...

Can agrobiodiversity provide a new model based on synergies among components that is linked to emerging movements on fo...

US small farms < 27 acres produce 10 times the value in dollar terms per acre of output

US small farms have 3 times the number of trees than larger farms – inverse relationship between size and output.

Assumptions about the efficiency of large scale farming in the US and UK are being questioned.

Industrial agriculture in the UK generates £2.3 billion in annual costs that are borne by government and society. </li></...

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