Nowadays, agriculture is under the pressure of climate change and new pathogen outbreaks while farmers are requiring breeders to develop more resistant resilient genotypes. The genetic base for breeding may be increased through appropriate conservation, description characterization local varieties germplasm collections that have never been used in breeding, which could sources useful alleles. I...

Abstract Mediterranean countries are still characterized by a great variety of historical cultural landscapes, as result the millenary human presence that has shaped territory through agro-silvo-pastoral practices. In arid regions south eastern Tunisia, land use is predominantly olive trees cropping and, because difficulties related to water scarcity, local population have developed peculiar ha...

Incorporating cover crops into corn and soybean operations across Southern Ontario is essential for maintaining yields under environmental stressors. Unfortunately, amongst the literature, there a concern about low adoption rate of in northern Corn Belt due to shift toward agrobiodiversity dominance more profitable cropping systems, encouraged by extensive use fertilizers, herbicides, pesticide...

The global expansion of a handful major crops risks eroding indigenous crop diversity and homogenising agroecosystems, with significant consequences for sustainable resilient food systems. Here, we investigate the farm-scale impact introduced on agroecosystems. We surveyed 1369 subsistence farms stratified across climate gradients in Ethiopian Highlands, hotspot agrobiodiversity, to characteris...

participatory conservation, as bottom-up management, is currently the most acceptable modelfor management of protected areas across the world. social context is a central issue in the sustainablemanagement of conservation areas. it is also crucial to introducing participatory conservation. the newapproach therefore recognizes rural communities as key partners in biodiversity management and seek...