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Home Gardens: Neglected hotspots of agricultural and cultural diversity
There is growing recognition of the importance of home gardens as repositories of biological diversity, but an inter-disciplinary investigation of their agro-biodiversity is still needed.
A new article by Bioversity scientists Gea Galluzzi and Pablo Eyzaguirre, and Valeria Negri from the University of Perugia, summarizes the available literature on the biological and cultural significance of agro-biodiversity in home gardens and stresses the key role of farmers:
“A major portion of agro-biodiversity thrives in complex agro-ecosystems which are most often managed by small farmers worldwide. On farm conservation in their fields and gardens is a ‘dynamic’ solution which ensures the continuous adaptation of species and landraces within their changing environment and relies upon both human and biological components of the ecosystem”.
Home gardens: neglected hotspots of agro-biodiversity and cultural diversity is published in Biodiversity and Conservation.
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Gea Galluzzi
Great to see this, and also the recent paper on African leafy vegetables. I've discussed them here: agro.biodiver.se/2010/09/on-local-greens-and-and-in-homegardens/.
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