The variety and variability of the animals, plants and micro-organisms that feed us, at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels. It is agriculture's insurance policy and it is shrinking: as a few staples took over the world's fields, national diets converged by 68 percent between 1961 and 2009, while traditional staples such as sorghum, millets, cassava and sweet potato lost a third to half of their share. Seed banks, the Svalbard vault and the centers-of-origin collections exist to keep what remains. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Concept ClassGenetic Resources and Crop Diversity 1 Connections
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Agricultural biodiversity is Bioversity International's core mandate, matching its own name.
Source Carbon farming - Wikipedia
The centers are where crops' greatest genetic diversity lives, the deep reserve agrobiodiversity conservation protects
Source Vavilov Center (Wikipedia)
Source What is Conservation Agriculture? (FAO)
Source Riparian buffer - Wikipedia
As the managed pollinator behind a large share of insect-pollinated food crops, the western honey bee is a direct stake in agricultural biodiversity.
Source Western Honey Bee (Wikipedia)
Critiqued Here
Monoculture, Concepts Growing one crop or variety across a large area is widely documented as reducing agricultural biodiversity and the resilience that comes with it.
Source Monoculture (Wikipedia)
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Entity-backed identity for the concept class this concept already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
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1. Agricultural Biodiversity (Wikipedia)
Etymology
The 1990 annual report of the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR, now Bioversity International) is one of the earliest references to biodiversity in the context of agriculture.
lead description (concept-class)
The variety and variability of the animals, plants and micro-organisms that feed us, at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels.
View the SourceAgricultural Biodiversity (Wikipedia)
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It can be defined as "the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels."
Western Honey Bee (Wikipedia)
Monoculture (Wikipedia)
What is Conservation Agriculture? (FAO)
Associated With: Conservation Agriculture, Overview section, biodiversity and biological processes passageQuote, Associated With: Conservation Agriculture, Overview section, biodiversity and biological processes passage
It enhances biodiversity and natural biological processes above and below the ground surface, which contribute to increased water and nutrient use efficiency and to improved and sustained crop production.
Riparian buffer - Wikipedia
Associated With: Riparian Buffer, Habitat benefits section, re-establishment passageQuote, Associated With: Riparian Buffer, Habitat benefits section, re-establishment passage
By adding this vegetated area of land near a water source, it increases biodiversity by allowing species an area to re-establish after being displaced due to non-conservation land use.
Carbon farming - Wikipedia
Associated With: Carbon Farming, Methods used in forestry section, Reforestation subsection, last sentenceQuote, Associated With: Carbon Farming, Methods used in forestry section, Reforestation subsection, last sentence
Biodiversity is often thought to be a side benefit of carbon farming, but in forest ecosystems increased biodiversity can increase the rate of carbon sequestration and can be a tool in carbon farming and not just a side benefit.
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