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: Received: 7 October 2023 / Approved: 9 October 2023 / Online: 10 October 2023 (12:28:09 CEST)
How to cite:
Antofie, M.-M.; Sand-Sava, C.; Vintila, T. Traditional Saxon Home-Gardens as Hot-Spots for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Conservation – Case Study in Romania. Preprints2023, 2023100545. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0545.v1
Antofie, M.-M.; Sand-Sava, C.; Vintila, T. Traditional Saxon Home-Gardens as Hot-Spots for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Conservation – Case Study in Romania. Preprints 2023, 2023100545. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0545.v1
Antofie, M.-M.; Sand-Sava, C.; Vintila, T. Traditional Saxon Home-Gardens as Hot-Spots for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Conservation – Case Study in Romania. Preprints2023, 2023100545. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0545.v1
APA Style
Antofie, M. M., Sand-Sava, C., & Vintila, T. (2023). Traditional Saxon Home-Gardens as Hot-Spots for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Conservation – Case Study in Romania. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0545.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Antofie, M., Camelia Sand-Sava and Teodor Vintila. 2023 "Traditional Saxon Home-Gardens as Hot-Spots for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Conservation – Case Study in Romania" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0545.v1
Abstract
Plant biotechnology is dependent today on accessing broader plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) diversity for ensuring food security for our future. Heterogenous agricultural lands are considered today as hotspot for biodiversity, and they also exist in the hilly mountain areas of Romanian’s Carpathians. The scope of this review is to describe traditional home-hardens related to the land use of households and cultivated species from Moșna commune, Sibiu County, Romania. The survey was realized with the support of authorities and local stakeholders from 2010 up to 2019. The results of this survey revealed that maintenance of crop species structure and land use of traditional households is longer than 100 years. Consequently at least 15 traditional Saxon home-gardens of 120 taken into the study may be defined. Today these home-garden covers a media of 26% of the total area of a household and should be part of a surface ranging between 5,000 and 1,500 m2. The first Local Council Decision in Romania in 2019 supporting the recognition of landraces and home-gardens as heritage values was officially adopted supporting the need to more access bottom-up approaches for supporting biodiversity conservation.
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
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