Intra-specific diversity of crops is one of the principle mechanisms used by small holder farmers in low input agricultural landscapes to maintain and restore resilience and production in agricultural landscapes. Deliberate use of intra specific crop diversity in farmers field can be a productive alternative to agrochemicals. Assessment to the amount and distribution of functional intra-specific diversity for annual and perennial crops in agricultural landscapes is needed to be able to improve access to diversity and information on this diversity to restore and maintain resilience and productivity in agricultural landscapes. Benefits to farmer or farming communities from their use of local diversity, are necessary to identify the different ways of using genetic diversity within production systems to restore and maintain agricultural landscapes. The work focuses on (I) the use perennial horticultural crops to rehabilitate saline and water scarce environments, (ii) the role crop and pasture genetic diversity on farm to buffer and rehabilitate lands under unpredictable environmental change, (iii) the role of on farm crop genetic diversity to restore ecosystem services to regulate pest and diseases.
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Bioversity (Alliance) - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT - Headquarter (Bioversity International), CAAS - Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CATAS - Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, CENESTA - Center for Sustainable Development and Environment, EBI - Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute, FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Government of Iran, IAV - Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, IER - Institut d’Economie Rurale (Mali), IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, INRAN - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger, Kunming Institute of Botany, LI-BIRD - Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture (Sri Lanka), Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (Uzbekistan), MOE - Ministry of Environment (Sri Lanka), MUC - Minzu University of China, NARC - Nepal Agricultural Research Council, NARO - National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda), NCARE - National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension, PAR - Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research, Royal Government of Bhutan, TSAU - Tashkent State Agrarian University, UN Environment - United Nations Environment Programme, WSU - Washington State UniversityRelated contents
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