What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?

Agrobiodiversity — the diversity of living organisms that underpin agricultural systems — provides numerous critical benefits, from on-farm crop diversity and genetic resources that allow farmers to adapt crops to changing environments to the provision of ecosystem services such as pollination, dise...

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Autores principales: Cenacchi, Nicola, Gotor, Elisabetta, Petsakos, Athanasios, Schiek, Benjamin
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175229
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author Cenacchi, Nicola
Gotor, Elisabetta
Petsakos, Athanasios
Schiek, Benjamin
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description Agrobiodiversity — the diversity of living organisms that underpin agricultural systems — provides numerous critical benefits, from on-farm crop diversity and genetic resources that allow farmers to adapt crops to changing environments to the provision of ecosystem services such as pollination, disease and pest resistance, soil health, and water conservation. These benefits in turn support resilient livelihoods, food security, and diversified, nutritious diets. A number of ex ante theoretical and practical approaches have been used to show how greater agricultural biodiversity is connected to higher production and lower risk exposure, and to assess the role that agrobiodiversity plays in supporting agricultural systems resilience. But little has been done to integrate the measurement of agrobiodiversity into foresight modeling, or to apply foresight tools and methods to study long-term effects of agrobiodiversity on socioeconomic or environmental outcomes. The recent development of the Agrobiodiversity Index and advances in integrated modeling systems provide opportunities for improved scenario analysis focused on agrobiodiversity and informed by agroecology and agricultural economics theory.
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spelling CGSpace1752292025-11-06T04:01:13Z What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems? Cenacchi, Nicola Gotor, Elisabetta Petsakos, Athanasios Schiek, Benjamin food systems agrobiodiversity risk analysis resilience modelling ecosystem services diversification genetic resources agroforestry Agrobiodiversity — the diversity of living organisms that underpin agricultural systems — provides numerous critical benefits, from on-farm crop diversity and genetic resources that allow farmers to adapt crops to changing environments to the provision of ecosystem services such as pollination, disease and pest resistance, soil health, and water conservation. These benefits in turn support resilient livelihoods, food security, and diversified, nutritious diets. A number of ex ante theoretical and practical approaches have been used to show how greater agricultural biodiversity is connected to higher production and lower risk exposure, and to assess the role that agrobiodiversity plays in supporting agricultural systems resilience. But little has been done to integrate the measurement of agrobiodiversity into foresight modeling, or to apply foresight tools and methods to study long-term effects of agrobiodiversity on socioeconomic or environmental outcomes. The recent development of the Agrobiodiversity Index and advances in integrated modeling systems provide opportunities for improved scenario analysis focused on agrobiodiversity and informed by agroecology and agricultural economics theory. 2025-07-21 2025-06-20T19:17:13Z 2025-06-20T19:17:13Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175229 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175019 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Cenacchi, Nicola; Gotor, Elisabetta; Petsakos, Athanasios; and Schiek, Benjamin. 2025. What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems? In What do we know about the future of food systems? eds. Keith Wiebe and Elisabetta Gotor. Part One: What Do We Know About the Future of Food Systems Drivers and Impacts? Chapter 7, Pp. 41-44. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175229
spellingShingle food systems
agrobiodiversity
risk analysis
resilience
modelling
ecosystem services
diversification
genetic resources
agroforestry
Cenacchi, Nicola
Gotor, Elisabetta
Petsakos, Athanasios
Schiek, Benjamin
What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?
title What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?
title_full What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?
title_fullStr What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?
title_full_unstemmed What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?
title_short What do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems?
title_sort what do we know about the future of agrobiodiversity in relation to food systems
topic food systems
agrobiodiversity
risk analysis
resilience
modelling
ecosystem services
diversification
genetic resources
agroforestry
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175229
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