Landraces are an agri-food and historical-cultural heritage but undergoing losses worldwide. Italy is taking action to counteract this problem by following European guidelines. One of the most important measures Agrobiodiversity National Register (ANR), 12 Italian regions currently appear without any landraces around 80% listed trees, with less detailed data on herbaceous species. The aim study...

Introduction Agrobiodiversity and local knowledge are fundamental components in the domestication structuring of rural landscapes. In a context threats to agroecosystems resulting from changes production systems rural–urban migration processes, conservation valorization agrobiodiversity is pressing challenge. “Quebrada de los Cuervos Sierras del Yerbal” protected landscape Uruguay where communi...

Effective maintenance of crop diversity within farming systems has been the subject of many studies over the last decade. Although the benefits of agrobiodiversity have been widely recognised and encouraged through global conservation and policy awareness initiatives, its use is constrained due to the limited number plant breeders who can respond to all the needs of the poor farmers. Agrobiodiv...

Landrace (or in situ) varieties of important crop species are becoming increasingly important to global agriculture as gene banks have increasing trouble keeping pace with the need for genetic material for plant breeders. However genetic erosion (or permanent loss of genetically diverse landrace varieties) poses significant threat to the viability of important genetic material. Processes associ...

Mexico, as a center of origin maize, presents high diversity maize races. With the objective spatially demarcating regions with concentration intraspecific in fundamental measure for situ conservation their agrobiodiversity, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools have been used to generate and richness indexes 64 races cultivated using demarcate relationships environmental factors such temp...