that favor their development. Also, the presence of 39 landraces in
Vall Fosca was recorded, highlighting the important role of home
gardens for in situ agrobiodiversity conservation (Calvet-Mir et al.,
2011a). Finally, this research also found that women, retired people,
owners of organic gardens, and experienced gardeners were those
who maintained more landraces. Women, retired people and experienced gardeners also hold more knowledge on landraces than people
without those sociodemographic characteristics.