Primer on Sustaining Agrobiodiversity for Food Security

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Primer on Sustaining Agrobiodiversity for Food Security

To the scientific community, agrobiodiversity implies crop diversity at the species level and arising there from is the sub-specific level biodiversity often referred to as crop cultivars. Traditional farmers, on the basis of their intuitive experience in managing traditional systems, do selective weeding leaving a certain weed biomass on the plot, which play a nutrient conservation role within the system. A wide range of traditional agricultural typologies are still available in the tropical world, all sustained largely by traditional farming communities. Therefore, it is time to ensure dynamic conservation of this rich heritage with concerns for enhanced food security for all sections of the society, but with special emphasis on ‘traditional societies’ who are the largest custodians of agrobiodiversity.

Part of a series of primers on biodiversity, this volume discusses designing sustainable pathways for sustainable agriculture for ensuring future food security for all.

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