Local people's perceptions of cultivated and wild agrobiodiversity, as well as their management of hybridization are still understudied in Amazonia. Here we analyze domesticated treegourd (Crescentia cujete), whose versatile fruits have technological, symbolic, and medicinal uses. A wild relative (C. amazonica) of the cultivated species grows spontaneously in Amazonian flooded forests. We demon...

This paper explores the linkages between gender, local knowledge systems and agrobiodiversity for food security by using the case study of LinKS, a regional FAO project in Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania over a period of eight years and now concluded. The project aimed to raise awareness on how rural men and women use and manage agrobiodiversity, and to promote the importance of lo...

Planetary health brings together intrinsically linked issues of human and natural systems. This paper reviews evidence how agrobiodiversity underpins dietary diversity for current populations in the context fruits vegetables, ways to maintain improve these future generations. Both conservation sustainable use fruit vegetable biodiversity consumption diverse diets are sub-optimal, many contexts ...

Agrobiodiversity is a common resource, on which our future global food security rest, while simultaneously representing the means of survival for many local farmers at present. Women have been identified as the key-persons regarding knowledge and management skills to use and thereby conserve biological diversity in agriculture. The Indian Government has introduced the “Protection of Plant Varie...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

This article explores the use of blockchain for agrobiodiversity (B4A) with a specific focus on (i) providing an overview existing regulatory challenges that result in sub-optimal research and innovation conserved situ, (ii) investigating how blockchain-based solution may help overcome these challenges, (iii) illustrating incentive mechanisms can to shortcomings intellectual property regimes pr...

Abstract The threats to agrobiodiversity ultimately affect our future food security. Countries bonded national or international biodiversity conservation legislation should conserve and sustainably use their agrobiodiversity. Landraces are a key element of which is largely endangered due lack systematic conservation, partially obstacles in developing inventories may be assigned the difficulties...

This paper offers a framework for analysing the economic drivers and effects of agrobiodiversity loss, focusing on in-situ conservation at both farm and landscape levels. We distinguish between the proximate and fundamental causes of biodiversity loss in terms of the decentralised (microeconomic) behaviour of farming households. Special attention is paid to the interplay between microeconomic d...