Bocci, Riccardo; Andersen, Regine; Bartha, Béla; Platzer, Emil and Rivière, Pierre (editor): Rey, Frederic (Ed.) (2019) Promoting an Enabling Environnement for Agrobiodiversity in Europe. Diversifood Booklets, no. 4. INRA.
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Summary
Since the 1970s Europe has approached plant genetic resources for food and agri-culture (PGRFA) as a specific domain defining its boundaries with the word “conservation”. At the beginning the focus was on ex situ conservation, i.e. genebanks conserving seeds in their storage systems. And then little by little the focus moved also to in situ/on farm conservation, i.e. conserving PGRFA where they have evolved and therefore also in farmers’ fields. But the pivotal word was always “conservation”, with procedures, rules, wording and policies mainly defined by the scientific community. Thus, the conservation of PGRFA was separated from agriculture as such, resulting in two distinct policy fields with few, if any, interrelations. This may be a reason why it took 10 years of negotiations of the directive on conservation varieties to have finally a legal text considering that seed laws should be amended in order to include more diversity.
This booklet presents the recommendations for promoting an enabling environment for Community Agrobiodiversity Management in Europe, considering again diversity at all the levels (e.g. varieties, species, ecosystems, landscapes and men) as a key component of farming systems. This diversity - called agrobiodiversity and including also social and cultural diversities - plays a central role for achieving the sustainable use of PGRFA and for adapting our food systems facing climate change and new societal expectations.
EPrint Type: | Report |
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Keywords: | Conservation, community agrobiodiversity management, genetic diversity, community seed banks, sustainable |
Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English Genetic diversity within species -> genetic variation http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_15975 English Marketing methods -> marketing techniques http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4625 English Seeds http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6946 |
Subjects: | Food systems Crop husbandry > Breeding, genetics and propagation Food systems > Policy environments and social economy |
Research affiliation: | European Union > Horizon 2020 > Diversifood France > INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France > ITAB - Institut Technique en Agriculture Biologique Italy UK > Organic Research Centre (ORC) |
Horizon Europe or H2020 Grant Agreement Number: | 633571 |
Deposited By: | Kutelmach, Margaux |
ID Code: | 38166 |
Deposited On: | 03 Jul 2020 10:18 |
Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2020 10:18 |
Document Language: | English |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Not peer-reviewed |
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