In southern Mexico, the home garden has played a key role in livelihood security of rural families and conservation agrobiodiversity. This article examines how, as dominant trend, urbanisation reduced dependence on gardening strategy, with consequent decline Drawing upon mixed methods approach involving household surveys life stories, contributes to better understanding long-term dynamics relat...

Throughout the centuries, farmers have developed crop seeds from the rich genetic diversity of naturally occurring crop species. It is only since the early twentieth century that a commercial production of crop seeds has started to replace the hand labor of crop selection. The modern breeding activities as well as farmers’ participation will continue to change the production systems of all farm...

2 Introduction Despite leading a shadowy existence in the public biodiversity debate, the issue of the loss of agrobiodiversity is hotly debated in expert circles. A broad understanding of agrobiodiversity can be described as that part of biodiversity that contributes in the context of agriculture to nutrition, livelihoods and the maintenance of habitats. Its scope covers agricultural crops, pr...

Seed exchange networks among farmers favor circulation of crop varieties and have been discussed as an effective means diversity conservation. This study aims to document the processes structure seed native maize, beans, squash other participating sectors (local market or banks), analyzing their influence on agrobiodiversity conservation in municipalities Ixtenco Huamantla, Mexican state Tlaxca...

As guardians of agrobiodiversity, farmers must have their rights to these resources recognized, rewarded, and supported by unparalleled contributions in the development landraces cultivated plants domestic animals. Thus, it is worth questioning what extent multilateral treaties that deal with use plant genetic for food agriculture would ensure protection rights. With this objective, we evaluate...

Farmers' decisions on what to grow and why can contribute in understanding the conservation of agrobiodiversity. Culture and ethnicity are indicated as first-class factors leading preservation of heirloom cultivars but this has been little considered in studies examining factors that influence the loss or preservation of agrobiodiversity. We propose that corn's ethnotaxa of less diverse uses, w...