Over the last century, crop landraces have gradually been replaced by modern, high-yielding varieties, which led to a significant reduction of in situ conserved crop diversity in Europe. Today, there is limited and scattered information about where landraces are still cultivated in Europe. To fill this gap and provide the basis for a regional strategy for the conservation of landraces, information on more than 19,335 georeferenced cultivation areas of landraces in 14 European countries was collected.

The IBV collaborated in this study and contributed data for Germany. The data from this study represent the largest ever database of landraces still in cultivation and is the first attempt to create a European inventory.
The article is available here: "Analysis of landrace cultivation in Europe: A means to support in situ conservation of crop diversity"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320722000131?via%3Dihub