"Humankind is going to have to utilize sustainably every type of agricultural biodiversity at all levels, genetic, species and agro-ecosystem, if, as is required for universal food security, sustainable food production is to be achieved across the whole range of production environments."

Report of the Joint CBD Secretariat / FAO Workshop on Farming Systems, "Approaches for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biological Diversity and Agro-Ecosystems", June 19-20, 1997, Rome, Italy

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