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Some values of agrobiodiversity can be privately captured by farmers, for example, its value in supporting agricultural productivity and stability or in providing insurance.
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The global public value of agrobiodiversity cannot be appropriated by farmers, and is a source of market failure and on-farm agrobiodiversity loss.
This paper considers ways that scientists from different disciplines can collaborate to determine the functions and value of agrobiodiversity for agricultural production, but within the context of understanding how biodiversity can be conserved in landscape mosaics that contain mixtures of land use types.
The challenge is to understand the combined ecological and social functions of agrobiodiversity, determine its contribution to ecosystem goods and services and value for society at large, and evaluate options for the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity across the agricultural landscape.
This includes issues such as spatial ecology; drivers of agrobiodiversity; sustainable resource management; and integrated studies on productive, equitable, and efficient agri-food chains to increase food quality.
Gene flow from HR crops is a special aspect of agrobiodiversity and relevant for the purity of genetic resources.
The paper also highlights the significant loss of agrobiodiversity as a result of human population pressure and the transition from traditional mixed farming systems which is characterized with high agrobiodiversity, to modern monoculture farming resulting in decline of species diversity.
In doing so it has altered once again the management of agrobiodiversity in terms of conservation and use possibilities, as well as the landscape of actors involved.
This behaviour brings genetic erosion with it, as much of agrobiodiversity gets lost when farmers discontinue to use traditional seeds (De Schutter [2011]).
As part of the EU strategy towards sustainability Member States are committed to identifying and protecting areas of agrobiodiversity.
The concepts of agrobiodiversity are also valid for forestry and fisheries, especially in situations where human activities dominate the ecosystem processes.
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