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1 Latiri, K.; Gana, A.; Shideed, K.; Albergel, J.; Grando, S.; Kaya, Y.; Panhwar, F.; Qadir, Manzoor; Tan, A. 2009. Historical and current perspectives of AKST. In McIntyre, B. D.; Herren, H. R.; Wakhungu, J.; Watson, R. T. (Eds.). Agriculture at a crossroads: IAASTD-CWANA report. Vol.1. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. pp.27-82.
Land use ; Land cover ; Agricultural production ; Crop production ; Livestock ; Case studies ; Water resources development ; Water resource management ; Dams ; Water harvesting ; Irrigation ; Land degradation ; Water quality ; Agrobiodiversity ; Agricultural policy ; Land tenure ; Trade policy ; Risk management ; Farm income ; Drought ; Environmental policy ; Labor ; Technology transfer ; Women
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042165)
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2 Sebastian, L. S.; Chandrabalan, D.; Borromeo, K. H.; Zhang, Z.; Mathur, P. N. 2000. Agrobiodiversity conservation and use in Asia Pacific and Oceania Region. Taipei, Taiwan: Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC). 7p. (FFTC Extension Bulletin 631)
Agrobiodiversity ; Biodiversity conservation ; Food security ; Crops ; Genetic resources / Asia Pacific / South Asia / Southeast Asia / East Asia / Oceania
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 8102 Record No: H044941)
http://www.fftc.agnet.org/files/lib_articles/20120105101950/eb631.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044941.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044941.pdf
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3 Fuentes, R. U.; Pollisco, F. Jr. 2011. Regional cooperation for assessing and coping with climate change impacts for sustainable management of sloping land agroecosystems and agrobiodiversity in Asia. Taipei, Taiwan: Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC). 9p. (FFTC Extension Bulletin 645)
International cooperation ; International organizations ; Climate change ; Agroecosystems ; Agrobiodiversity ; Sloping land ; Watersheds ; Sustainability ; Incentives / Asia / Brunei Darussalam / Cambodia / Indonesia / Laos / Malaysia / Myanmar / Philippines / Singapore / Thailand / Vietnam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 8155 Record No: H046704)
http://www.agnet.org/library.php?func=view&id=20131121165856
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046704.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046704.pdf
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4 Bhattarai, B.; Beilin, R.; Ford, R. 2015. Gender, agrobiodiversity, and climate change: a study of adaptation practices in the Nepal Himalayas. World Development, 70:122-132. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.01.003]
Gender relations ; Climate change adaptation ; Agrobiodiversity ; Women's participation ; Equity ; Living standards ; Households ; Income ; Farmers ; Crop production ; High yielding varieties ; Cash crops ; Rainfall patterns ; Socioeconomic environment ; Organizations ; Case studies / Nepal / Himalayas / Hanspur
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047703)
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Gender is seminal to agrobiodiversity management, and inequities are likely to be exacerbated under a changing climate. Using in-depth interviews with farmers and officials from government and non-government organizations in Nepal, we explore how gender relations are influenced by wider socio-economic changes, and how alterations in gender relations shape responses to climate change. Combining feminist political ecology and critical social-ecological systems thinking, we analyze how gender and adaptation interact as households abandon certain crops, adopt high-yielding varieties and shift to cash crops. We argue that the prevailing development paradigm reinforces inequitable gender structures in agrobiodiversity management, undermining adaptation to the changing climate.
5 Nair, P. K. R.; Garrity, D. (Eds.) 2012. Agroforestry - the future of global land use. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 549p. (Advances in Agroforestry 9) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4676-3]
Agroforestry systems ; Land use ; Land management ; Landscape ; Climate change ; Adaptation ; Habitats ; Ecosystem services ; Biodiversity conservation ; Rural development ; Trees ; Domestication ; Carbon sequestration ; Carbon credits ; Agriculture ; Farming systems ; Research and Development ; Energy conservation ; Energy generation ; Renewable energy ; Bioenergy ; Industrialization ; Soil properties ; Rangelands ; Gender ; Smallholders ; Food security ; Germplasm ; Rehabilitation ; Greenhouse gases ; Emission ; Sustainability ; Organic agriculture ; Organic fertilizers ; Faidherbia albida ; Natural resources management ; Forest conservation ; Tillage ; Residues ; Nutrient cycling ; Grazing ; Cropping systems ; Shifting cultivation ; Rubber plants ; Wetlands ; Living standards ; Cashews ; Smallholders ; Fruit growing ; Poverty ; Rural communities ; Environmental policy ; Environmental services ; Silvopastoral systems ; Economic aspects ; Alley cropping ; Reclamation ; Indigenous knowledge ; Urbanization ; Agrobiodiversity ; Fertilizers ; Resource conservation ; Legal aspects ; Corporate culture ; Theobroma cacao ; Coffea ; Forage ; Soil fertility ; Case studies / Asia / Europe / Africa / Indonesia / China / USA / Canada / Japan / Latin America / Kenya / Philippines / Niger / Amazon / Sumatra / Xishuangbanna
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H047924)
6 Mabhaudhi, T.; Chimonyo, V. G. P.; Hlahla, S.; Massawe, F.; Mayes, S.; Nhamo, Luxon; Modi, A. T. 2019. Prospects of orphan crops in climate change. Planta, 250(3):695-708. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-019-03129-y]
Climate change adaptation ; Food security ; Food insecurity ; Food systems ; Nutrition ; Genetic diversity ; Sustainability ; Cropping systems ; Water scarcity ; Water use efficiency ; Greenhouse gas emissions ; Agroecosystems ; Agrobiodiversity ; Socioeconomic environment ; Research and development ; Diversification ; Land use
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049145)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00425-019-03129-y.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049145.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049145.pdf
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Orphan crops play an important role in global food and nutrition security, and may have potential to contribute to sustainable food systems under climate change. Owing to reports of their potential under water scarcity, there is an argument to promote them to sustainably address challenges such as increasing drought and water scarcity, food and nutrition insecurity, environmental degradation, and employment creation under climate change. We conducted a scoping review using online databases to identify the prospects of orphan crops to contribute to (1) sustainable and healthy food systems, (2) genetic resources for future crop improvement, and (3) improving agricultural sustainability under climate change. The review found that, as a product of generations of landrace agriculture, several orphan crops are nutritious, resilient, and adapted to niche marginal agricultural environments. Including such orphan crops in the existing monocultural cropping systems could support more sustainable, nutritious, and diverse food systems in marginalised agricultural environments. Orphan crops also represent a broad gene pool for future crop improvement. The reduction in arable land due to climate change offers opportunities to expand the area under their production. Their suitability to marginal niche and low-input environments offers opportunities for low greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from an agro-ecosystems, production, and processing perspective. This, together with their status as a sub-set of agro-biodiversity, offers opportunities to address socio-economic and environmental challenges under climate change. With research and development, and policy to support them, orphan crops could play an important role in climate-change adaptation, especially in the global south.
7 Kerr, R. B.; Kangmennaang, J.; Dakishoni, L.; Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H.; Lupafya, E.; Shumba, L.; Msachi, R.; Boateng, G. O.; Snapp, S. S.; Chitaya, A.; Maona, E.; Gondwe, T.; Nkhonjera, P.; Luginaah, I. 2019. Participatory agroecological research on climate change adaptation improves smallholder farmer household food security and dietary diversity in Malawi. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 279:109-201. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.04.004]
Climate change adaptation ; Agroecology ; Participatory research ; Household food security ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Nutrition ; Dietary factors ; Agrobiodiversity ; Agricultural practices ; Strategies ; Gender ; Socioeconomic environment ; Villages / Malawi
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049399)
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This study examines whether agroecological farming practices, when employed by highly vulnerable households in sub-Saharan Africa, can improve food security and dietary diversity. The research involved a four-year study with 425 smallholder households, selected purposively based on high levels of food insecurity and/or positive HIV status. The households carried out agroecological experiments of their own choosing over a four-year period. Baseline (n = 306) and follow-up (n = 352) surveys were conducted in 2011 and 2013 respectively to assess changes in farming practices, food security, crop diversity and dietary diversity. Longitudinal mixed effects models were used with 203 matched households to estimate determinants of change in food security and dietary diversity at the population level. Qualitative interviews and focus groups were also conducted to provide depth to the survey findings. The findings show that participatory agroecology experimentation increased intercropping, legume diversification and the addition of compost, manure and crop residue amendments to the soil. Intercropping was associated with food security and the use of organic soil amendments was associated with gains in dietary diversity in bivariate analysis. Household food security and dietary diversity increased significantly over a 2-year period. Importantly, multivariate models showed that spousal discussion about farming was strongly associated with increased household food security and dietary diversity. Households who discussed farming with their spouse were 2.4 times more likely to be food secure and have diverse diets. Addition of compost or manure to the soil significantly influenced dietary diversity. These findings indicate that poor, vulnerable farmers can use agroecological methods to effectively improve food and nutritional security in sub-Saharan Africa. The study also highlights how linking agroecology to participatory research approaches that promote farmer experimentation and gender equity also lead to greater health and well-being. The study sheds light on how agroecological approaches can rapidly improve food security and dietary diversity, even under conditions of acute social, health or ecological stress. It draws attention to issues of equity and farmer-led approaches in addressing food security and nutrition.
8 DeClerck, F. A. J.; Koziell, I.; Sidhu, A.; Wirths, J.; Benton, T.; Garibaldi, L. A.; Kremen, C.; Maron, M.; Rumbaitis del Rio, C.; Clark, M.; Dickens, Chris; Estrada-Carmona, N.; Fremier, A. K.; Jones, S. K.; Khoury, C. K.; Lal, R.; Obersteiner, M.; Remans, R.; Rusch, A.; Schulte, L. A.; Simmonds, J.; Stringer, L. C.; Weber, C.; Winowiecki, L. 2021. Biodiversity and agriculture: rapid evidence review. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 70p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.215]
Agrobiodiversity ; Food systems ; Agricultural productivity ; Healthy diets ; Nutrition ; Livelihoods ; Food security ; Food production ; Diversification ; Agroecology ; Ecosystem services ; Habitats ; Environmental security ; Water quality ; Water security ; Climate change mitigation ; Resilience ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Policies ; Investment ; Agricultural landscape ; Soil fertility ; Pollination ; Pest control ; Genetic diversity (as resource) ; Developing countries
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050605)
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9 Bai, Y.-I.; Fu, C.; Thapa, B.; Rana, R. B.; Zhang, L.-X. 2022. Effects of conservation measures on crop diversity and their implications for climate-resilient livelihoods: the case of Rupa Lake Watershed in Nepal. Journal of Mountain Science, 19(4):945-957. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-020-6426-3]
Agrobiodiversity ; Diversification ; Climate change ; Resilience ; Livelihoods ; Watersheds ; Cash crops ; Grain crops ; Vegetables ; Households ; Farmland / Nepal / Gandaki / Kaski / Rupa Lake Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051119)
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11629-020-6426-3.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051119.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051119.pdf
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Agrobiodiversity conservation is vital for achieving sustainability, but empirical studies on the effects of different practices or measures on crop diversity are rare. This study aims to estimate the effects of raising conservation awareness (RCA), building diversity blocks (BDB), and their combination on crop diversity among 240 randomly selected households surrounding the Rupa Lake Watershed in Nepal. Based on descriptive analysis and multiple regression models, the results indicate that the two single measures had no significant effect on the numbers of crop species and varieties grown by households in 2018. However, the combination of RCA and BDB had a significantly positive effect on the number of crop varieties, especially for grain and vegetable crops. Considering that these crops are essential in the daily lives of local people, the results indicate that a strategy that combines both awareness raising and on-farm conservation measures can generate higher crop diversity and better serve the climate-resilient livelihoods of people in mountainous areas.
10 Karunaratne, A. S.; Wimalasiri, E. M.; Esham, M.; Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe; Jahanshiri, E. 2024. Crop modelling - underutilized crops for climate-smart agrifood systems. Editorial. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 8:1305909. [doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1305909]
Crop modelling ; Underutilized species ; Climate-smart agriculture ; Climate change ; Agrobiodiversity ; Resilience ; Food security
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052691)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2024.1305909/pdf?isPublishedV2=False
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052691.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052691.pdf
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