TY - JOUR
T1 - Landraces and climate change
T2 - global trends through the lens of political agroecology
AU - Calvet-Mir, Laura
AU - Benyei, Petra
AU - Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna
AU - Aceituno-Mata, Laura
AU - Braga Junqueira, André
AU - Mattalia, Giulia
AU - Miñarro, Sara
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Schlingmann, Anna
AU - Vieira da Cunha Ávila, Julia
AU - Labeyrie, Vanesse
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2025.
PY - 2025/3/25
Y1 - 2025/3/25
N2 - Drawing on a global literature review describing and characterizing the use of landraces by Indigenous and Local Communities (IPLC) in the context of climate change, we found that economic factors seem more important than climate change in explaining the worldwide decline in landraces. We identified that structural agricultural policies lead to farmers’ dependence on markets and new technologies, causing the erosion of landrace diversity and an overall disregard for Indigenous and local knowledge. However, we identified a resistance movement that aims to transform relationships within the seed system to favor landrace conservation. We conclude that the maintenance of landrace diversity cannot be achieved without giving back the decision-power in agroecosystems to farmers instead of capital.
AB - Drawing on a global literature review describing and characterizing the use of landraces by Indigenous and Local Communities (IPLC) in the context of climate change, we found that economic factors seem more important than climate change in explaining the worldwide decline in landraces. We identified that structural agricultural policies lead to farmers’ dependence on markets and new technologies, causing the erosion of landrace diversity and an overall disregard for Indigenous and local knowledge. However, we identified a resistance movement that aims to transform relationships within the seed system to favor landrace conservation. We conclude that the maintenance of landrace diversity cannot be achieved without giving back the decision-power in agroecosystems to farmers instead of capital.
KW - Agrobiodiversity
KW - Crop diversity
KW - Indigenous and local communities
KW - Indigenous and local knowledge
KW - Indigenous varieties
KW - Local varieties
KW - Market
KW - Traditional varieties
KW - Agrobiodiversity
KW - Crop diversity
KW - Indigenous and local communities
KW - Indigenous and local knowledge
KW - Indigenous varieties
KW - Local varieties
KW - Market
KW - Traditional varieties
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105001731382
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/dbaf9ca9-4f0a-3099-a95d-b228b985546b/
UR - https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/publications/877d7c58-1289-40a9-a314-6849bf2ed075
U2 - 10.1007/s10460-025-10721-4
DO - 10.1007/s10460-025-10721-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105001731382
SN - 0889-048X
VL - 42
SP - 1307
EP - 1321
JO - Agriculture and Human Values
JF - Agriculture and Human Values
IS - 3
ER -
