Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Biological diversity of agriculture consists of several analytic levels and spatial management
scales that are subject to complex interactions with global change. The complexity of …

The importance of seed provisioning in food security and nutrition, agricultural development
and rural livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity and germplasm conservation is well accepted by …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Landraces cultivated in centers of crop diversity result from past and contemporary patterns
of natural and farmer‐mediated evolutionary forces. Successful in situ conservation of crop …

Traditional landraces of maize are cultivated throughout more than one-half of Mexico's
cropland. Efforts to organize in situ conservation of this important genetic resource have …

This paper examines how agricultural modernization and tradition interact among small-
scale commercially-oriented maize farmers by studying shifts in area and number of farmers …

Climate change will affect agricultural production by subsistence farms in crop centers of
origin, where landraces are conserved in situ. Various strategies for adaptation to climate …

Integrating the conservation of biodiversity by smallholder farmers with agricultural
intensification is increasingly recognized as a leading priority of sustainability and food …

Smallholder farmers who grow diverse landraces in centres of crop diversity contribute to
sustaining the capacity of agricultural and food systems to adapt to change by maintaining …