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Agricultural Biodiversity
Preserving while producing
Agricultural Biodiversity
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture have opened the
Call for Proposals 2010: Benefit-sharing Fund
The theme for the 2008 International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD) was
“Biodiversity and Agriculture”
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Agricultural biodiversity provides not only food and income but also raw materials for clothing, shelter, medicines, breeding new varieties, and performs other services such as maintenance of soil fertility and biota, and soil and water conservation, all of which are essential to human survival. Nearly one third of the world's land area is used for food production.
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What's new
30 June 2011
Press Release: Policy makers and senior officials briefed on the coherent implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Nagoya Protocol
27 June 2011
Message from the CBD Executive Secretary on the occasion of the Second Forum on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in the Near East Region, 27 to 29 June, 2011
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16 June 2011
Agricultural biodiversity: biofuels and biodiversity. Experiences and results from assessments of the impacts of biofuel production and use on biodiversity and impacts on biodiversity that affect related socioeconomic conditions
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