In situ landrace propagation management and access guidelines

Within the Farmer’s Pride project this document intends to provide the community with guidelines and recommendations that can significantly help to maximise the level of in situ maintained diversity. The approach used is based on collection and analysis of diverse case studies of European in situ maintained landraces, together with a review of the existing literature on this topic. The resulting document provides the user community with clear prescriptions to carry out, or develop, proper multiplication and diffusion strategies with the principal aim of maximising landrace diversity while keeping its identity. Cases where introduction of landraces into a completely new environment are needed are also considered. The elements used to build these recommendations were also retrieved through an accurate literature review.