agrobiodiversity

A collection of essays that offer a unique alternative to conventional agriculture that explains how farming can produce healthful food and fully functioning ecosystems with populations of native species.

Explores ecoagriculture, examining threats to biodiversity, human welfare, land conversion, habitat pollution and degradation, overexploitation, strategies for integrating conservation in agricultural development, legal frameworks and regulations, market incentives, support institutions, and other related topics.

"'Bread, Wine, Chocolate'--part journey to six continents in pursuit of delicious and endangered tastes, part investigation of the loss of biodiversity from soil to plate--tells the story of what we are losing, how we are losing it, and the inspiring people and places that are briging back the foods we love"--Dust jacket.

Discusses an "alternative agriculture" that produces healthful food as well as managing a farming biodiversity, and includes information on agroecological restoration.

Discusses methods for relieving world hunger and preserving wild biodiversity and natural ecosystems.