January 28, 2016 at 06:32PM Cultural diversity among farmers has shaped sorghum biological diversity

Researchers from CIRAD and their partners from KALRO have discovered that the social relations between farmers play a central role in the dynamics of the diversity of sorghum grown on the slopes of Mount Kenya. By influencing seed exchanges, social structure shapes local agro-biodiversity. This work has major implications in terms of agricultural genetic resource conservation.

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