Dears
I have struggled to find the difference between agrobiodiversity and biodiversity?
Biodiversity is the wealth of life on Earth, it includes all plants, animals and microorganisms including the genes they contain, but also higher ecological components, ecosystems, that create landscapes and environments. Compared to that, agrobiodiversity is a subset of biodiversity, it is biological diversity at the level of field crops. For long-term sustainability of agrobiodiversity, organic fertilization, use of biodegradable crop protection products, crop rotation, use of techniques with low pressure on the soil, ... , are particularly important.
Dear Bozena,
In this sense, agrobiodiversity does not contain farmed animals and microorganisms of agricultural importance?
Dear Takele,
" ... at the level of field crops", meant in a broader sense (sensu lato). I'm sorry, I expressed myself imprecisely.
I meant, of course, the entire agricultural system including everything connected with food production, i.e. plant and animal production, hunting, fishing, herding, viticulture, production of vegetables, medicinal herbs, orchards, ...
Best regards,
BS
Biodiversity is concerned with the diversity and variance between individuals and species of all living organisms in general, including wild species, as well as the diversity and variance between ecosystems, while agrobiodiversity is concerned with the differences and variances between agricultural species only.
Dear Takele Taye Desta . See the following useful RG link: Article Agrodiversity: Definition, Description and Design
Kindly see also the following useful RG link: Article Agricultural Biodiversity, Nutrition, and Health: Making a D...
Also check please the following useful link: http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/strategy/206945
The following link is also very useful: https://www.google.com/amp/s/docplayer.net/amp/30288040-What-is-agrobiodiversity.html
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Agro-biodiversity: It refers to the agriculture biodiversity. Agro-biodiversity may include all the genetic materials included in the agriculture system. It may include different crops, plants other than crops, weeds, insects, pests, microorganisms, algae, fungi, birds etc.
Biodiversity: Bio=Life; diversity=different. It means all different life forms of a particular area constitute its biodiversity.
Dear Takele Taye Desta,
Biodiversity occurs in natural ecosystems in which many species of flora, fauna and other forms of life function within natural linkages, dependencies and ecological relationships. Agrobiodiversity, on the other hand, can occur in sustainable, pro-environmental multispecies crop production carried out under environmentally neutral organic farming. I have used the term that it can occur under the condition that agricultural crops are cultivated in such a way that in one area of the fields at least several plant species of agricultural crops are grown at the same time, between which natural relationships and ecological relations can occur, so that the biodiverse agricultural crops relate in their formulation to biodiverse natural ecosystems. However, it is unlikely that even within the framework of sustainable, environmentally neutral organic agriculture it will be possible to grow highly biodiverse agricultural crops. The limiting factor for agrobiodiversity is a function of economic efficiency analysed against crop area, local environmental and climatic factors. There are more opportunities in this respect on small family farms, which are not oriented towards intensive production for sale only for the farmer's own family needs. The question of analysing the determinants and possibilities of biodiverse farming within the framework of sustainable organic agriculture is an important research topic due to climate change, including the ongoing process of global warming.
Regards,
Dariusz
Agrobiodiversity is related with agriculture and its ecosystem, whereas, biodiversity refers to the diversity of biological species and the ecosystem in which they live.
Biodiversity is diverse range of all the living beings starting from very small microorganism's (can't be seen by naked eyes) to the very giant animal in the universe....While, agro- biodiversity is diverse range of all the micro & macro flora and micro & macro fauna taking part in agricultural activities either in direct or indirect manner...
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