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L\u00e9o Ramos<\/span><\/a> Detail of a forest fragment, north of the city of ManausL\u00e9o Ramos<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The recently created Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is looking for ways to engage researchers and scientific institutions worldwide \u2013 including those from least-developed nations \u2013 in producing regional diagnoses to build the platform’s first global report on biodiversity. Officially launched in 2012 after almost 10 years of negotiations, the platform was designed to organize the available scientific knowledge on biodiversity and use it to support policy decisions \u2013 an approach similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). \u201cLatin America and the Caribbean are rich in biological and cultural diversity, so they can play an important role in defining the path to be followed by IPBES,\u201d says Malaysian scientist Zakri Abdul Hamid, the platform’s first chair, in a regional meeting of IPBES hosted by FAPESP on July 11, 2013.<\/p>\n

Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) outlines the challenges that the platform will be tackling. About 75% of the genetic diversity of agricultural crops has been lost over the past century. \u201cOne of the factors responsible for this loss was that farmers around the globe were cultivating genetically uniform and high-yield varieties of crops and abandoning many local varieties,\u201d explains Hamid. \u201cThere are 30,000 species of plants, but only 30 crops account for 95% of the food energy consumed by human beings; the majority (60%) comes from rice, wheat, corn, millet and sorghum,\u201d he says. Approximately 22% of the world’s bovine breeds are at risk of extinction, mainly because they do not live up to the economic expectations of livestock farmers. Many of these breeds carry important genetic material for breeding programs. They are also a means of subsistence in very poor regions, as they are easier to handle than exotic breeds.<\/p>\n

The IPBES also wants to make sure that traditional knowledge does not go to waste. Anthropologist Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, professor at the University of Chicago and a participant of the event hosted by FAPESP, sees this as an innovative approach. \u201cA scientific model can exist alongside a traditional one. It is possible to establish dialogues with people whose world views are completely different from ours.\u201d According to BIOTA-FAPESP Program coordinator Carlos Joly, investing in training is also an innovative goal of the IPBES. According to Joly, who is also a director of the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel, it is essential for the platform to go beyond diagnostics. It should also train people and institutions to produce reliable information about biodiversity, identify the gaps in the existing knowledge, and work out how to handle problems. \u201cThese are the roles that set IPBES apart from IPCC,\u201d he explained. Early this year, the IPBES posted a set of documents on its website (www.ipbes.net<\/a>), in which it describes the platform’s targets and proposes a work program. The stated goals of the platform include investments in training human resources to handle biodiversity-related topics around the globe, particularly when it comes to interfacing between scientists and decision-makers in order to support the effective implementation of policies. A new round of discussions is scheduled to take place in December 2013, in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biodiversity report faces the challenge of integrating data and knowledge ","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[206,209],"coauthors":[740],"class_list":["post-135202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policies-st-en","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135202"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=135202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}