The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the environments where this diversity originated or is being used, are issues which are high on the policy agenda. As part of efforts to implement this in situ conservation strategy, development organizations have recently created a common methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM). CBM empowers communities to manage and take informed decisions and thus contribute to the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity; by this means, they also exercise their farmers rights.

This book is the first to set out a clear...