Biodiversity and agriculture have an inseparable relationship, with interdependent interactions between their constituent components. Agriculture as a basic anthropogenic activity is one of the main factors in directions development biodiversity. Agrobiodiversity basis existence food production processes provides secures many essential aspects modern living. Many these are completely unknown, s...

Farmer seed systems come in many shades: Conserving, producing, and using diverse plant material for different motives purposes, whether the conservation or selection of locally adapted varieties populations, safeguard social bonds to secure economic stability integration into rural communities. In Europe, strict marketing rules, by viewing any exchange seeds as commercial exploitation, have fi...

Abstract Local seed systems remain the fundamental source of seeds for many crops in developing countries. Climate resilience small holder farmers continues to depend largely on locally available traditional crop varieties. High rainfall events can have as significant an impact production increased temperatures and drought. This article analyzes dynamics maize diversity over 3 years a farming c...

Investigating crop origins is a priority to understand the evolution of plants under domestication, develop strategies for conservation and valorization of agrobiodiversity and acquire fundamental knowledge for cultivar improvement. The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) belongs to the genus Phoenix, which comprises 14 species morphologically very close, sometimes hardly distinguishable. It has...

Tropical forest conversion to pasture, which drives greenhouse gas emissions, soil degradation, and biodiversity loss, remains a pressing socio-ecological challenge. This problem has spurred increased interest in the potential of small-scale agroforestry systems to couple sustainable agriculture with biodiversity conservation, particularly in rapidly developing areas of the tropics. In addition...

Farming intensity and landscape heterogeneity influence agrobiodiversity associated ecological functions. The relative contributions of these agroecosystem components to agricultural production remain unclear because inter-relations weather-dependant variations. Using a structural equation modelling approach, we estimated direct indirect farming (soil management, pesticide use fertilisation) (o...