Agricultural Biodiversity and Livelihoods: issues and entry points

This report reviews policy issues related to the maintenance of biodiversity in agricultural production, focusing on the effects on poor farmers.

It provides suggestions for a newer approach to biodiversity, less reliant on industrial-type inputs - such as pesticides, fertilisers, and more aimed at the changing farming systems, with greater involvement of the farmers and at community-levels.

Issues covered include:

• crop diversity
• plant breeding
• methods for calculating biodiversity values
• implications for national and international research systems
• implications for donors