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Natures Matrix Linking Agriculture ~ When first published in 2009 Nature’s Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity This new edition pushes the frontier of the biodiversityagriculture debate further making an even stronger case for the need to transform agriculture and support small and mediumscale agroecology and food sovereignty

Natures Matrix Linking Agriculture Biodiversity ~ When first published in 2009 Nature’s Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity This new edition pushes the frontier of the biodiversityagriculture debate further making an even stronger case for the need to transform agriculture and support small and mediumscale agroecology and food sovereignty

Natures Matrix Linking Agriculture Biodiversity ~ Natures Matrix Linking Agriculture Biodiversity Conservation and Food Sovereignty 2nd Edition Paperback Routledge When first published in 2009 Nature’s Matrix set out a radical new approach to the conservation of biodiversity

Natures matrix Linking agriculture conservation and ~ Nature’s Matrix Linking Agriculture Conservation and Food Sovereignty The cover painting by Beatriz depicts a Zapatista community farm An important book argues that conservationists who focus on creating nature preserves are undermining their own cause

Nature’s matrix linking agriculture conservation and ~ Nature’s matrix linking agriculture conservation and food sovereignty As the title of the book suggests the authors link tropical agriculture conservation and the right for local food sovereignty to put forward a radically new perspective for tropical conservation

Biodiversity and Agriculture Nature’s Matrix and the ~ For those of us who argue for a landscape approach where both natural vegetation patches and a high quality matrix comprise the landscape the essential problem with the landsparing perspective can be summarized in two related points first landsparing strategies assume that protected areas are far more protective of biodiversity than is the case and second the strategies assume that the negative effect of industrial agriculture on biodiversity is minimal and can remain so even under

Nature’s matrix Linking agriculture conservation and ~ Using examples from the Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement MST Mexico’s Zapatistas and others Nature’s Matrix argues that the fight for biodiversityfriendly farming is inseparably linked to the growing international movement of small farmers against neoliberal agricultural policies and for what the umbrella organisation Via Campesina calls food sovereignty – “the conjoining of the rights of people to consume food to the rights of people to produce their own food” p 207

Natures Matrix Linking Agriculture Conservation and ~ They argue that recent advances in ecological research make such a general approach anachronistic and call rather for solidarity with the small farmers around the world who are currently struggling to attain food s Matrix proposes a radically new approach to the conservation of biodiversity based on recent advances in the science of ecology plus political realities particularly in the worlds tropical regions

Biodiversity conservation in agriculture requires a multi ~ With everincreasing global demands for agricultural production of food and fuel additional stresses on species in and surrounding agricultural land are inevitable 115 As such conserving the biodiversity that lives in agricultural lands has become a major focus of much conservation policy