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Diversitas

27 January 2006

Dear Colleague,

The Science Plan and Implementation Strategy of the DIVERSITAS Cross-Cutting Network agroBIODIVERSITY is now available online. Follow the link www.diversitas-international.org

to download the PDF.

The goal of the agroBIODIVERSITY Science Plan and Implementation Strategy is to establish the scientific basis needed to address the trade-offs between food production, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and human well-being in agricultural landscapes. Three key research foci of the agroBIODIVERSITY Science Plan integrate the biological and social sciences:

To assess biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and the anthropogenic drivers of biodiversity change;
To identify the goods and services provided by agrobiodiversity at various levels of biological organisation, e.g. genes, species, communities, ecosystems and landscapes;
To evaluate the socioeconomic options for the sustainable use of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.

Implementation of the agroBIODIVERSITY Science Plan will involve collaboration between geneticists, ecologists, anthropologists, and economists among other disciplines, to understand the environmental and social drivers of biodiversity change, ecosystem services provided by biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, and how to use this information for policy-relevant strategies to meet human needs.

For more information on the project, please contact the chair Louise Jackson (lejackson@ucdavis.edu)

If you would like some paper copies, please contact the DIVERSITAS secretariat (secretariat@diversitas-international.org)

On behalf of the agroBIODIVERSITY Scoping Committee

Louise Jackson

Kamal Bawa

Unai Pascual

Lijbert Brussaard

Stephen Brush

Thomas Gavin

Roberto Papa

Charles Perrings

Peter de Ruiter

Céline VASS

Science Officer
DIVERSITAS
51, bd Montmorency
75016 Paris, France

Tel : +33 (0)1 45 25 95 26 (direct)
+33 (0)1 45 25 95 25 (secretariat)
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