01887nam a2200217Ia 4500 9251049173 FQG FAO BIO 2003 C132 Or. Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Biodiversity and the ecosystem approach in agriculture, forestry and fisheries Satellite event on the occasion of the Ninth Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 12-13 October 2002 : proceedings v, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm "TC/M/Y4586E/1/3.03/3000"--P. [4] of cover There are over 500 million farm management units in the world, overwhelmingly found in developing countries. FAO's ongoing field work in over 100,000 rural communities has found that all those farm managers can understand their farms, fields, forest, rangelands and fisheries as ecosystems. Farmers, even in the poorest and most food-insecure regions of the world, manage genes by their decision on crop varieties, manage species by their decisions on farm animals and manage ecosystems by their decision on soil pollination Farmers, fisherfolk, and forest dwellers not only understand and can apply ecosystem approaches in their decision-making, but also understand the potential impact of large-scale environmental threats to their livelihoods. FAO's biodiversity programmes apply ecosystem approaches to stimulate community level education and experiential learning by rural people. The same approaches educate national policy makers wishing to fulfill commitments made to environmental treaties while still meeting agricultural production demands Agrobiodiversity Biodiversity Agricultural ecology Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AEDBB 20950 20950 0 0 0 FAO_BIO_2003_000000000000000_A084_OR 0 92626 LBA LBA A084 2023-01-18 FAO BIO 2003 A084 Or. a071129 2023-01-18 AEDBB