Evolutionary process driven by human (whether conscious or unconscious) selection but also involving natural processes applied to wild plants or animals and leading to adaptation to cultivation and consumption or utilization. Domestication can be complete, whereby organisms become entirely dependent on humans for their continued existence or can be partial or incipient, whereby they still reproduce independently of human intervention (Gepts, 2014). In traditional systems, farmer practices still shape the genetic structure of crops and their evolution.

Evolutionary process driven by human (whether conscious or unconscious) selection but also involving natural processes applied to wild plants or animals and leading to adaptation to cultivation and consumption or utilization. Domestication can be complete, whereby organisms become entirely dependent on humans for their continued existence or can be partial or incipient, whereby they still reproduce independently of human intervention (Gepts, 2014). In traditional systems, farmer practices still shape the genetic structure of crops and their evolution (Vigouroux et al., 2011).

Species in which the evolutionary process has been influenced by humans to meet their needs.

A specified sphere of activity or knowledge.

The condition of having or comprising differing elements or qualities (peoples, organisms, methodologies, organisations, viewpoints, etc.).

Emphasizes use of a suite of farming practices that promote agro-biodiversity across scales (from within the farm to the surrounding landscape), leading to the generation and regeneration of key ecosystem services (soil fertility, water use efficiency, pest and disease control, pollination, climate resilience, and others) and reducing the need for off-farm inputs.

Any system that uses a mix of crops, trees, livestock and fish to ensure variety of food, fodder and fibre sources and complementary use of natural resources. The diversity of crops and animals helps to achieve stability of production and stability of ecosystem processes.

Diverse values arise from the different lenses through which people interpret human-nature relationships (i.e. worldviews), and as a result, diverse values have had different meanings across disciplines, knowledge systems, cultures, languages and social-ecological contexts. This assessment focuses on the diverse values of nature which emerge from the different ways in which people perceive nature and build their relations with it.

Focuses on the allocation among stakeholders of costs and benefits, include intergenerational and intragenerational justice.

Allocation of costs, benefits, risks and responsibilities as well as of the products of nature requiring the disaggregation of values to highlight who benefits and who loses, and to demonstrate the consequences for those affected.