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Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding, genetics, anthropology, economics, and policy, this invaluable resource places farmer-managed crop biodiversity squarely in the center of the science needed to feed the world and restore health to our productive landscapes. It will prove to be an essential tool in the training of agricultural and environmental scientists seeking the solutions necessary to ensure healthy, resilient ecosystems for future generations.

Crops --- Agrobiodiversity conservation. --- Conservation of agrobiodiversity --- Agricultural conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Plant genetics --- Genetics.

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The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane, Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. For these reasons, it is almost a paradox that jaguar, a species that requires large areas of pristine forest to exist, is still found in some parts of the state of São Paulo. It is possible that wild animals could leave in coexistence with intense land use, or is it the case that such rare encounters with large wild animals in São Paulo will disappear in the near future?All ecologists are aware of the problems of habitat changes caused by humans, but it was not until recent years that researchers started to consider that the land used for production could also serve as an important habitat for many different kinds of wild species. This book is about this new approach to conservation. It also highlights the important role that sciences could and should have in this discussion in order to better understand the problems and propose possible solutions.

Agrobiodiversity conservation --- Agrobiodiversity --- biodiversity, agroecosystems, Brazil,. --- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology. --- Agricultural biodiversity --- Agricultural biological diversity --- Agro-biodiversity --- Agricultural ecology --- Biodiversity --- Conservation of agrobiodiversity --- Agricultural conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Brazil, Southeast. --- Brazil, Southeast --- Brazil --- Southeast Brazil.

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La agricultura actual es como una gran pirámide invertida. A nivel mundial, se apoya sobre una base estrecha y precaria. Hoy usamos menos de 3 % de las 250.000 variedades de plantas disponibles para la agricultura. El sistema de investigación agrícola de arriba hacia abajo, en el cual los agricultores son vistos como simples receptores de la investigación y no participantes en ella, ha contribuido a una dependencia cada vez mayor de relativamente pocas variedades de plantas. Esta tendencia y la creciente industrialización de la agricultura son causales decisivas de lo que sólo puede ser defini

Plant breeding. --- Plant breeding --- Field crops --- Agrobiodiversity conservation. --- Plantes --- Cultures de plein champ --- Biodiversité agricole --- Conservation of agrobiodiversity --- Agricultural conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Breeding. --- Amélioration. --- Amélioration --- Conservation.

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Agroforestry --- Agrobiodiversity --- Agrobiodiversity conservation --- Conservation of agrobiodiversity --- Agricultural conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Agro-forestry --- Agriculture --- Forests and forestry --- Tree crops --- Agricultural biodiversity --- Agricultural biological diversity --- Agro-biodiversity --- Agricultural ecology --- Biodiversity --- Environmental aspects --- Agroforestry - Tropics --- Agrobiodiversity - Tropics --- Agroforestry - Environmental aspects - Tropics --- Agrobiodiversity conservation - Tropics

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John Hartigan Jr. uses ethnography to access the expertise of botanists and others engaged with cultivating biodiversity, providing various entry points for understanding plants in the world around us. He begins by tracing the historical emergence of race through practices of care on nonhumans, showing how this history informs current thinking about conservation. With geneticists working on maize, Hartigan deploys Foucault's concept of care of the self to analyze how domesticated species are augmented by an afterlife of data. In the botanical gardens of Spain, Care of the Species explores seed banks, herbariums, and living collections, depicting the range of ways people interact with botanical knowledge. This culminated in Hartigan's effort to engage plants as ethnographic subjects through a series of imaginative "interview" techniques.--COVER.

Agrobiodiversity conservation. --- Biodiversité. --- Corn --- Corn. --- Espèces (biologie) --- Génétique --- Maïs --- Plant diversity conservation. --- Plant diversity. --- Conservation --- Social aspects --- Genetics --- Social aspects. --- Genetics. --- Speciation --- Anthropologie. --- Mexico. --- Spain. --- Diversité végétale --- Génétique. --- Diversité végétale. --- Plant diversity conservation --- Agrobiodiversity conservation --- Corn plant --- Indian corn --- Maize --- Zea mays --- Zea --- Conservation of agrobiodiversity --- Agricultural conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Genetics&delete& --- Speciation&delete& --- Conservation of plant diversity --- Plant diversity --- Plant conservation --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Maïs --- Diversité végétale. --- Génétique.