- Can Ficus Sp. Forests Be Restored Through Vegetative Propagation? Yes. But with the reduced genetic diversity and all, for how long?
- A qualitative assessment of diversity and factors leading to genetic erosion of vegetables: a case study of Varamin (Iran). Species richness only, settle down. But, pace the title, quantitative.
- Agricultural intensification escalates future conservation costs. Because of higher land rents. Just can’t win.
- Common property protected areas: Community control in forest conservation. They can work.
- Baja California peninsula oases: An agro-biodiversity of isolation and integration. Both too much and too little isolation are bad.
- Cultivated, caught, and collected: defining culturally appropriate foods in TallĂ©, Niger. …and integrating them into development.
- Wetlands in Europe: Perspectives for restoration of a lost paradise. Down to 20% and counting. Someone should count the crop wild relatives in them.
- Economic Resilience and Land use: The Cocoa Crisis in the Rio Cachoeira Catchment, Brazil. Diverse land use means more resilience.
- Priorities for biodiversity monitoring in Europe: A review of supranational policies and a novel scheme for integrative prioritization. Yeah, but doesn’t integrate crop wild relatives, does it?
“The Cocoa Crisis”: Not sure I accept their usage of `monoculture’, as in “Being based on monoculture production, the seven administrative units considered in this paper turned out to be particularly vulnerable to the economic and environmental perturbation.” This is not to do with monoculture per se, but with plantation agriculture and the reliance on international markets. The system would fail if the market for the main traded product collapsed even if it was being grown in complex forest gardens. There is a similar abuse of `monoculture’ to `explain’ the Irish potato famine. This was not so much related to growing low genetically uniform monocultures of potatoes but with a high over-reliance on one staple food, a disease epidemic that could take out even a diverse potato crop (which had not co-evolved with the disease), and a human population that was higher then than now – probably a unique demography. A similar forced emigration happened in Scotland, where absentee landlords replaced excellent mixed/diverse farming and fishing with sheep farming – fewer farmers but bigger rents.