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082			_aFAO BIO 2003 C132 Or.
110	2		_aCommission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
245	1	0	_aBiodiversity and the ecosystem approach in agriculture, forestry and fisheries
246	1		_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
300			_av, 312 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c30 cm
500			_a"TC/M/Y4586E/1/3.03/3000"--P. [4] of cover
520			_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
520			_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
650		0	_aAgrobiodiversity
650		0	_aBiodiversity
650		0	_aAgricultural ecology
710	2		_aFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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