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HARVESTING NATURE'S DIVERSITY

Year of publication 1993

Author Office for Corporate Communication

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The biological diversity of our planet, the foundations of agriculture and food production, once seemed inexhaustible. Now a different picture is emerging of a finite, yet renewable, resource. Wisely managed, it can support the world's peoples into the foreseeable future. It is no exaggeration to say that the future of human civilization could depend on our ability to defend and make sustainable use of biological diversity.

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