Christian Leclerc

TL;DR: The role of seed exchange networks in the preservation and adaptation of crop specific and genetic diversity is discussed in this article, where the authors advocate a diversity of approaches to foster the creation of robust and policy-relevant knowledge.

TL;DR: This article analyzes how social anthropology, through the analysis of intermarriage, residence and seed inheritance practices, can contribute to studies on crop genetic diversity in situ.

TL;DR: This study quantifies the effect of homophily on seed exchange networks and details the major role played by kinship systems, and provides a better understanding of the social processes involved in crop diversity dynamics.

TL;DR: High-quality genomic resources are established to facilitate fonio improvement through molecular breeding, enabling insights into genetic diversity, population structure, and domestication in this orphan African cereal crop.

TL;DR: This study investigated the mechanisms whereby social boundaries associated with patterns of ethnolinguistic diversity have influenced the on-farm distribution of sorghum diversity, finding that the patterns of congruence or discordance between the nomenclature of farmers’ varieties and the structure of both genetic and morphological diversity highlight the effects of the social organization of communities on the diffusion of seed, practices, and variety nomenClature.