Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects,
as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse …

Environmental pollution, increasing CO2 atmospheric levels and the greenhouse effect are
closely associated with the ongoing climate change and the extreme climatic events we are …

The importance of seed provisioning in food security and nutrition, agricultural development
and rural livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity and germplasm conservation is well accepted by …

Multiple knowledge systems are crucial to understand human-environment interactions of
the biodiversity of agriculture and food systems (agrobiodiversity). This article synthesizes …

This paper examines climate change adaptation and gender issues through an application
of a feminist intersectional approach. This approach permits the identification of diverse …

Climate change is already affecting agro-ecosystems and threatening food security by
reducing crop productivity and increasing harvest uncertainty. Mobilizing crop diversity could …

Background The narrow genetic base of elite germplasm compromises long-term genetic
gain and increases the vulnerability to biotic and abiotic stresses in unpredictable …

Background The limited genetic diversity of elite maize germplasms raises concerns about
the potential to breed for new challenges. Initiatives have been formed over the years to …

Highlights•2.0–2.5 billion smallholders are key to sustainable intensification and food
security.•Sustainable intensification (SI) and ecological intensification (EI) require …