Biodiversité

Peut-on sauver les de poissons en Méditerranée ? La réunion annuelle de la Commission générale des pêches pour la Méditerranée et la mer Noire, la CGPM, qui décide des quotas de pêches dans la grande…

Les conséquences de l’appauvrissement des sols affectent trois milliards de personnes, alerte le secrétaire exécutif de la Convention des Nations unies pour la lutte contre la désertification, Ibrahim Thiaw.

The cultivation of diverse farmers’ varieties/landraces, which tend to be well-adapted and suited to local production systems, confers increased resilience for crop production. Farmers’ varieties/landraces are also potential sources of traits for crop improvement, especially for developing varieties tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses and for incorporating farmer-preferred traits. Unfortunately, many of these genetic resources have been replaced by modern cultivars in recent decades, resulting in a reduction in the total number of different varieties grown and/or loss of heterogeneity. Such losses make farming systems less resilient, especially to shocks from abiotic and biotic stresses.