Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity

CK Khoury, S Brush, DE Costich, HA Curry… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Navigating toward resilient and inclusive seed systems

OT Westengen, SP Dalle… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Food systems face new climatic and socioecological challenges and farmers need a
diversity of new plant varieties to respond to these. While plant breeding is important …

Governing for transformative change across the biodiversity–climate–society nexus

U Pascual, PD McElwee, SE Diamond, HT Ngo… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Transformative governance is key to addressing the global environmental crisis. We explore
how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be …

The next era of crop domestication starts now

AS Krug, E BM Drummond… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Current food systems are challenged by relying on a few input-intensive, staple crops. The
prioritization of yield and the loss of diversity during the recent history of domestication has …

[HTML][HTML] Crop biocultural traits shape seed networks: Implications for social-ecological resilience in south eastern Senegal

A Porcuna-Ferrer, V Labeyrie, S Alvarez-Fernandez… - Agricultural …, 2023 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Agroecosystems' social-ecological resilience largely depends on the crop
diversity generated and maintained by farmers, which provides insurance against changing …

Policy-oriented versus market-induced: Factors influencing crop diversity across China

X Song, X Wang, X Li, W Zhang, J Scheffran - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Crop diversity is crucial for sustainable farmland ecosystems and global sustainability, and
thus is a popular subject of research in ecological economics, agricultural science, and …

[HTML][HTML] Drought-tolerant indigenous crop decline in the face of climate change: A political agroecology account from south-eastern Senegal

A Porcuna-Ferrer, L Calvet-Mir, NF Faye… - Journal of Rural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In south-eastern Senegal, Bassari farmers have historically cultivated and
consumed a wide diversity of varieties of sorghum, fonio, and Bambara groundnut, most of …

Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities

V Reyes-García, D García-Del-Amo… - Sustainable Earth …, 2024 - Springer
Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are
disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge and …

Functional transition of cultivated ecosystems: Underlying mechanisms and policy implications in China

X Song, X Wang, S Hu, R Xiao, J Scheffran - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The ecological sustainability of cultivated land use is a major challenge for achieving the
Sustainable Development Goals. However, less attention has been paid to the ecological …

Climate change perceptions and adaptations among smallholder farmers in the mountains of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

RK Amani, B Riera, G Imani, R Batumike… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The warming rates in many mountain areas are higher than the global average, negatively
impacting crop systems. Little is known about the climatic changes which are already being …