Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties.
Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy …

This paper reviews and discusses how studies on (i) on-farm diversity assessment,(ii)
access to diversity and information,(iii) extent of use of available materials and information …

Substantial evidence has shown that involvement in peer-to-peer farming networks
influences whether a farmer decides to try a new practice. Formally organized farmer …

The 'food regime'concept helps to analyse potential transitions beyond the agro-industrial
regime which has been globally dominant since the 1970s. As its multiple crises generate …

Spodoptera frugiperda has caused significant losses of farmer income in sub-Saharan
countries since 2016. This study assessed farmers' knowledge of S. frugiperda, their …

Participatory plant breeding (PPB), commonly applied in the Global South to address the
needs of underserved farmers, refers to the active collaboration between researchers …

A radical shift in our approach to crop production is needed to ensure food security and to
address the problems of soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, polluted and restricted water …

In response to the climate change, it is essential to provide smallholder farmers with
improved field crop genotypes that may increase the resilience of their farming system. This …

The standardization of environments (E) encouraged by modern society and by the
productivist model of agriculture has resulted in the standardization of genotypes (G) thereby …

Re-localization is part of the solution but does not fully address the diversity of
interdependencies within food systems. Based on the discussion in a workshop that was …