Selim Louafi

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: The importance of seed provisioning in food security and nutrition, agricultural development and rural livelihoods, and agrobiodiversity and germplasm conservation is well accepted by policy makers, practitioners and researchers as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Santonieri et al. as mentioned in this paper highlight the complexity and structural inequalities between mechanisms to conserve agricultural genetic diversity, and argue that we must rather define objectives of conserving/protecting agricultural biodiversity in terms of geographic levels (local, regional, North/South, global), social management levels (individuals, human societies, mankind), and socio economic levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the literature on the role of social networks in farmers' access to agrobiodiversity, in the form of crop diversity and associated biodiversity, and the related knowledge to manage this diversity.

TL;DR: The International Year of Quinoa (IYQ) was recognized by the United Nations in 2013 as discussed by the authors, highlighting the potential role of quinoa's biodiversity in contributing to global food security, given its high nutritional value and tremendous potential to adapt to different agroclimatic conditions.