Agrobiodiversity

Table Of Contents

The Ernst Strüngmann Forum vii
List of Contributors ix
1 Integrating Agrobiodiversity Knowledge
for a Sustainable Future
Karl S. Zimmerer, Stef de Haan, and Julia R. Lupp 1
Evolutionary Ecology, Agroecology, Conservation,
and Cultural Interactions
2 Crop Evolutionary Agroecology: Genetic and Functional
Dimensions of Agrobiodiversity and Associated Knowledge
Kristin L. Mercer, Yves Vigouroux, Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez,
Stef de Haan, Robert J. Hijmans, Christian Leclerc, Doyle McKey,
and Steven J. Vanek 21
3 How Does Population Genetics Contribute to an
Understanding of the Evolution of Agrobiodiversity?
Yves Vigouroux, Christian Leclerc, and Stef de Haan 63
4 Crop and Varietal Diversity Impacts on
Agroecosystem Function and Resilience
Steven J. Vanek 79
5 Spatial Analysis for Crop Genetic Resources Conservation:
Selected Approaches for In and Ex Situ Efforts
Nora P. Castañeda-Álvarez, Robert J. Hijmans, and Stef de Haan 103
Global Change and Socioecological Interactions
6 Socioecological Interactions amid Global Change
Conny J. M. Almekinders, Glenn Davis Stone, Marci Baranski,
Judith A. Carney, Jan Hanspach, Vijesh V. Krishna,
Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Jacob van Etten, and Karl S. Zimmerer 117
7 How Do Climate and Agrobiodiversity Interact?
Jacob van Etten 145
8 How Do Global Demographic and Spatial
Changes Interact with Agrobiodiversity?
Karl S. Zimmerer and Judith A. Carney 163
From Food and Human Diets to Nutrition, Health, and Disease
9 Agrobiodiversity and Feeding the World:
More of the Same Will Result in More of the Same
Anna Herforth, Timothy Johns, Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro,
Andrew D. Jones, Colin K. Khoury, Timothy Lang, Patrick Maundu,
Bronwen Powell, and Victoria Reyes-García 185
10 Agricultural Biodiversity and Diets:
Evidence, Indicators, and Next Steps
Andrew D. Jones, Gina Kennedy, Jessica E. Raneri,
Teresa Borelli, Danny Hunter, and Hilary M. Creed-Kanashiro 213
11 Exploring Pathways to Link Agrobiodiversity
and Human Health
Victoria Reyes-García and Petra Benyei 225
Governance, Including Policy, Cultural, and Economic Frameworks
12 Indigenous Agrobiodiversity and Governance
Gabriel Nemogá 241
13 Seeding Relations: Placemaking through
Ecological, Social, and Political Networks as a
Basis for Agrobiodiversity Governance
Guntra A. Aistara 265
14 The Governance of Agrobiodiversity
Bert Visser, Stephen B. Brush, Guntra A. Aistara, Regine Andersen,
Matthias Jäger, Gabriel Nemogá, Martina Padmanabhan,
and Stephen G. Sherwood 283
15 How Have Markets Affected the
Governance of Agrobiodiversity?
Matthias Jäger, Irene van Loosen, and Alessandra Giuliani 307
Bibliography 325
Subject Index 379
Strüngmann Forum Reports 389