Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition
This chapter characterizes the biodiversity on the planet and stresses the importance of biodiversity for agriculture. It then highlights the latest research on the decline in biodiversity and its impact on food supplies, and how biodiversity links to diets. It describes some challenges in ensuring...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2019
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| author | Fanzo, Jessica |
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| description | This chapter characterizes the biodiversity on the planet and stresses the importance of biodiversity for agriculture. It then highlights the latest research on the decline in biodiversity and its impact on food supplies, and how biodiversity links to diets. It describes some challenges in ensuring that agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable development. Finally, it identifies the gaps in knowledge that remain and some potential solutions to push biodiversity to the forefront of the 2030 sustainable development agenda. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1463432025-12-08T10:29:22Z Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition Fanzo, Jessica biodiversity agrobiodiversity nutrition-sensitive agriculture nutrition policies agricultural policies sustainability nutrition agricultural development food systems dietary diversity This chapter characterizes the biodiversity on the planet and stresses the importance of biodiversity for agriculture. It then highlights the latest research on the decline in biodiversity and its impact on food supplies, and how biodiversity links to diets. It describes some challenges in ensuring that agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable development. Finally, it identifies the gaps in knowledge that remain and some potential solutions to push biodiversity to the forefront of the 2030 sustainable development agenda. 2019-02-14 2024-06-21T09:06:42Z 2024-06-21T09:06:42Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146343 en https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0000 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute CAB International Fanzo, Jessica. 2019. Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition. In Agriculture for improved nutrition: Seizing the momentum. Chapter 4. Fan, Shenggen; Yosef, Sivan; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (Eds.). Wallingford, UK: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CABI. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146343 |
| spellingShingle | biodiversity agrobiodiversity nutrition-sensitive agriculture nutrition policies agricultural policies sustainability nutrition agricultural development food systems dietary diversity Fanzo, Jessica Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition |
| title | Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition |
| title_full | Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition |
| title_fullStr | Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition |
| title_short | Biodiversity: An essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition |
| title_sort | biodiversity an essential natural resource for improving diets and nutrition |
| topic | biodiversity agrobiodiversity nutrition-sensitive agriculture nutrition policies agricultural policies sustainability nutrition agricultural development food systems dietary diversity |
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