02038nam a2200229Ia 4500020001500000040000800015082002600023110006200049245008300111246016900194300004900363500004700412520052900459520053000988650002101518650001701539650002501556710006101581942001001642999001701652952013901669  a9251049173  cFQG  aFAO BIO 2003 C132 Or.2 aCommission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.10aBiodiversity and the ecosystem approach in agriculture, forestry and fisheries1 aSatellite 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  av, 312 pages :billustrations, maps ;c30 cm  a"TC/M/Y4586E/1/3.03/3000"--P. [4] of cover  aThere 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  aFarmers, 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 0aAgrobiodiversity 0aBiodiversity 0aAgricultural ecology2 aFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.  cAEDBB  c20950d20950  0010406FAO_BIO_2003_000000000000000_A084_OR70992626aLBAbLBAcA084d2023-01-18oFAO BIO 2003 A084 Or.pa071129r2023-01-18yAEDBB