Dan Tobin: Smallholder Farmers and Conservation of Crop Diversity

Crop diversity is essential to enhance global food security and adapt to climate change, but market requirements, climate change, and agricultural industrialization contribute to high rates of erosion. Still, many small farmers around the world continue to conserve diverse varieties of crops.

In this talk, Daniel Tobin (University of Vermont) provides an overview of various projects across Vermont, Peru, Mexico, and sub-Saharan Africa, investigating who conserves crop diversity, their reasons for doing so, and the outcomes they experience.