Diversity of useful plants in managed ecosystems.
Harold Brookfield, Exploring Agrodiversity, Columbia University Press, 2001.
The use of women as agrobiodiversity conservators is based on the belief that women are the main users of natural resources.
This term is much more common than agrodiversity [or agricultural diversity]. It is commonly used to mean the diversity of useful plants in managed ecosystems. Agrobiodiversity was defined by Guo Huijun, Dao Zhiling, and Brookfield (Guo Huijun and C. Padoch. 1995. Patterns and management of agroforestry systems in Yunnan: An approach to upland rural development. Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions 5(4), p.15) as “management and direct use of biological species, including all crops, semi-domesticates and wild species.”
Harold Brookfield, Exploring Agrodiversity, Columbia University Press, 2001, p. 40.