Agricultural biodiversity or agrobiodiversity is a subset of general biodiversity pertaining to agriculture. It can be defined as "the variety and variability of animals, plants and micro-organisms at
Unusual strains of maize are examples of crop diversity and can be used as the basis for breeding new varieties.
Diversity of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) near harvest, with quinoa farmer, in Cachilaya, Bolivia, Province La Paz
Neglected and underutilized crop species in Benin
Rice terraces in Munduk. The mosaic of ecosystem components provides various ecosystem services
A crop wild relative is a wild plant closely related to a domesticated plant. It may be a wild ancestor of the domesticated plant or another closely related taxon.
Agricultural biodiversity
…within and between species. It can refer to the naturally occurring genetic variability within and between populations of a species, for example wild relatives of food crops, or to the variability created by humans, for example farmer-developed traditional crop varieties called landraces, or commercially bred varieties of…
Two conservationists collecting indigenous knowledge on cultural practices that favour CWR populations, from a farmer near Fes, Morocco.
Example of one of the first genetic reserves established to conserve CWRs near Kalakh al Hosn, Syria
Cajanus scarabaeoides is one of the closest wild relatives to the cultivated pigeonpea and has high drought tolerance and high protein content. Being screened at the campus of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Patancheru, India.
Geographic hotspots of distributions of crop wild relatives not represented in genebanks