diversity for life 2010
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A global campaign for agricultural biodiversity
Agricultural biodiversity
The variety of plants and animals that feed and nurture us and without which we could not survive.
Agricultural biodiversity
• Enables plants and animals to evolve and adapt to different growing conditions
• Farmers and breeders
depend on this diversity
for crop and animal
improvement
Agricultural biodiversity can deliver major benefits
• It can improve agricultural productivity without costly inputs
• It buffers yields
Agricultural biodiversity can deliver major benefits
• It is our best hope for dealing with the threat that climate change poses to agriculture
Agricultural biodiversity can deliver major benefits
• It can significantly improve human nutrition • It can boost people’s incomes
Yet agricultural biodiversity faces major threats
• According to Bioversity research, by 2055, more than half of 23 crops studied—including cereals such as wheat, rye and oats—will lose land suitable for their cultivation due to climate change
• This loss will fall disproportionately on sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean
• The transfer of agricultural lands to biofuels production further limits the space available for producing food
About Bioversity
Bioversity International’s aim is—through the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity—to promote the greater well-being of people, particularly poor people in developing countries, by helping them to achieve food security, to improve their health and nutrition, to boost their incomes, and to conserve the natural resources on which they depend.
Bioversity’s commitment to public awareness
• Our stakeholders have told us that making people aware of the potential of diversity to improve their health and well-being is the most important way we can contribute to the Millennium Development Goals.
2010
• Declared by the United Nations to be the International Year of Biodiversity
About the Diversity for Life campaign
For people to value and use agricultural biodiversity
Campaign goal
Policymakers, schools, media
Target audiences
Our lives depend on agricultural biodiversity. It influences our health, our history, our culture and our identity.
Key message
Teaching the teachers (Italy)Museum exhibit and public lectures (Kenya)
Oral history project (India, Italy, Kenya, Peru, Senegal)
Journalist training (South America, East Africa)Rural radio programming (Kenya, Peru)
Policymaker roundtables (Peru, Philippines)Photography contest (global)
The Guardians of Diversity (Mediterranean)La Settimana della Biodiversita’ (Italy)
Selected activities
• CBD Secretariat• Slow Food• InterPress Service• Ctm altromercato• IFAD• FAO• Museums, NARS, grassroots organizations in
Peru, Italy, Kenya. India, Senegal
Partners
For more information about the campaign, visit:
www.diversityforlife.org
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