Sustainable production and the sustainable use of biotic resources have become increasingly significant. This results in the demand by society for a sustainable use of biotic resources especially within the nutrition sector. But also their use for industrial purposes had led research and...

"Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural modernisation. This book argues that neither position does justice to the range of strategies that...