Roundtable Workshop
Managing Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustainable Development
Valuing Crop, Tree, Livestock, and Aquatic Genetic Resources
October 27-28, 2005, Washington, DC
Background Documents
Where permission has been granted by the publisher, we have provided full text of these articles in PDF format for conference participants only.
Aquatic Resources
- Liu, Z.J. and J.F. Cordes. 2004. DNA marker technologies and their applications in aquaculture genetics. Aquaculture 238 (2004): 1 -37.
- Tisdell, C. 2003. Aquaculture's potential impacts on conservation of wild stocks and biodiversity, Aquaculture Economics & Management 7(1/2).
Crop and Livestock Resources
- Drucker, A.G., M. Smale, and P. Zambrano. 2005. Valuation and Sustainable Management of Crop and Livestock Biodiversity: A Review of Applied Economics Literature. SGRP/IFPRI.
- Fowler, C. and Hodgkin, T. 2004. Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture: Assessing Global Availability. Cary Fowler and Toby Hodgkin. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 29:143-79.
Reprinted, with permission, from the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 29 © 2004 by Annual Reviews, www.annualreviews.org
- Gibson, J.P., and R.S.V. Pullin. 2005. Conservation of Livestock and Fish Genetic Resources. CGIAR Science Council Secretariat. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome, Italy.
- Mathias, Evelyn, and Paul Mundy. 2005. Herd movements: The exchange of livestock breeds and genes between North and South. League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, Ober-Ramstadt, Germany.
Reprinted with permission from League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development, www.pastoralpeoples.org
- Zambrano, P. 2005. General Literature on Valuing Biodiversity and Ecosystems. International Food Policy Research Institute.
Forest Resources- Atta-Krah, K., R. Kindt, J.N. Skilton and W. Amaral. 2004. Managing biological and genetic diversity in tropical agroforestry. Agroforestry Systems 61: 183-194.
- Boffa, J., L. Turyomurugyendo, J. Barnekow-Lilles, R. Kindt. 2005. Enhancing farm tree diversity as a means of conserving landscape-based biodiversity. Mountain Research and Development 25(3): 212-217.
Article originally published in Vol 25. No. 3 of Mountain Research and Development. Reprinted with permission.
- Kindt R, Noordin Q, Njui A and Ruigu S. 2005. Biodiversity conservation through agroforestry: managing tree species diversity within a network of community-based, nongovernmental, governmental and research organizations in western Kenya. ICRAF Working Paper No. 2. Nairobi: World Agroforestry Centre.
- Kindt, R., A. J. Simons and P. Van Damme. 2004. Do Farm Characteristics Explain Differences in Tree Species Diversity among Western Kenyan Farms? Agroforestry Systems 63: 63-74.
- Kindt, R., P. Van Damme, and A.J. Simons. Forthcoming. Patterns of species richness at varying scales in western Kenya: planning for agroecosystem diversification. Biodiversity and Conservation.
- Kindt, R., P. Van Damme, and A.J. Simons. Forthcoming. Tree diversity in western Kenya: using profiles to characterise richness and evenness. Biodiversity and Conservation.
TOP of the page