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Collectively, CGIAR centres maintain 600, 000 plant varieties in crop genebanks in a global effort to conserve agricultural biodiversity.
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As it stands, we are losing agricultural biodiversity at a tremendous rate.
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Water scarcity, diminishing agricultural yields and biodiversity loss are only a few of the consequences of these forces.
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More organic farming would help "restore biodiversity within agricultural landscapes", Dr Fuller added.
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About the diversity of crop varieties, biodiversity, agricultural ecosystems - neither.
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"Only through a convergence of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions and water-use policies can bioenergy find its proper environmental context and agricultural scale, " the report concludes.
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