Text mining national commitments towards agrobiodiversity conservation and use

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dc.creatorJuventia, Stella D.
dc.creatorJones, Sarah K.
dc.creatorLaporte, Marie-Angélique
dc.creatorRemans, Roseline
dc.creatorVillani, Chiara
dc.creatorEstrada-Carmona, Natalia
dc.date2020-09
dc.date2020-09-01T14:08:24Z
dc.date2020-09-01T14:08:24Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:54:41Z
dc.descriptionCapturing countries’ commitments for measuring and monitoring progress towards certain goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), remains underexplored. The Agrobiodiversity Index bridges this gap by using text mining techniques to quantify countries’ commitments towards safeguarding and using agrobiodiversity for healthy diets, sustainable agriculture, and effective genetic resource management. The Index extracts potentially relevant sections of official documents, followed by manual sifting and scoring to identify agrobiodiversity-related commitments and assign scores. Our aim is to present the text mining methodology used in the Agrobiodiversity Index and the calculated commitments scores for nine countries while identifying methodological improvements to strengthen it. Our results reveal that levels of commitment towards using and protecting agrobiodiversity vary between countries, with most showing the strongest commitments to enhancing agrobiodiversity for genetic resource management followed by healthy diets. No commitments were found in any country related to some specific themes including varietal diversity, seed diversity, and functional diversity. The revised text mining methodology can be used for benchmarking, learning, and improving policies to enable conservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity. This low-cost, rapid, remotely applicable approach to capture and analyse policy commitments can be readily applied for tracking progress towards meeting other sustainability objectives.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/109147
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/69640
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceJuventia, S.D.; Jones, S.K.; Laporte, M.-A.; Remans, R.; Villani, C.; Estrada Carmona, N. (2020) Text mining national commitments towards agrobiodiversity conservation and use. Sustainability 12(2): 715. ISSN: 2071-1050
dc.subjecttext mining
dc.subjectmeasuring instruments
dc.subjectmonitoring and evaluation
dc.subjectagrobiodiversity
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectdiets
dc.subjectgenetic resources
dc.subjectconservation agriculture
dc.subjectminería de textos
dc.subjectinstrumentos de medición
dc.subjectseguimiento y evaluación
dc.titleText mining national commitments towards agrobiodiversity conservation and use
dc.typeJournal Article

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