Tropical Agrobiodiversity (TRAB)

Agricultural biodiversity is the diversity of crops and their wild relatives, trees, animals, microbes and other species that contribute to agricultural production. This diversity – which results from thousands of years of interactions among people and the environment – is a key component of healthy diets and human health. Food biodiversity is crucial to fight malnutrition and diet-related diseases. A diverse diet increases the likelihood of consuming adequate amounts of the full range of nutrients essential to human health. In agricultural production, agrobiodiversity supports long-term productivity, resilience and multiple ecosystem services, boosting yields in quality and quantity, increasing soil and water quality, and reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers. It also makes farmers’ livelihoods more resilient, reducing yield losses due to climate change and pest damage. Broadening the types of cultivated plants is also good for the environment, increasing the abundance of pollinators and beneficial soil organisms, and reducing the risk of pest epidemics. Agricultural biodiversity also keeps open options for unknown future needs, when conserved. This can happen in gene banks as well as on farms, where agrobiodiversity is conserved by using it. Agrobiodiversity has a key role to play in relation to food security, eradication of poverty and sustainable ecosystem functioning. Agriculture is the third engine of growth in Malaysia which contributed US$16.55 billion or 7.7% of Malaysia’s GDP in 2011 which increased to 10.1% in 2012. Malaysia’s agriculture sector largely consists of oil palm, rubber, rice fields, cocoa, fruit orchards, industrial crops (tuberous crops, fibre, and medicinal plants), vegetable farms, livestock rearing and aquaculture farms. Sustainable utilization of agrobiodiversity resources is a key component within the agriculture sector in Malaysia. These agrobiodiversity resources are essential for future breeding purposes, improving plant varieties or animal breeds; to develop traits that are resistant to pests and diseases; for utilization as biofuel, biopesticides and in food product development. Tropical Agrobiodiversity (TRAB) focus on three mains areas; Sustainable production of food and other agricultural products Biological support to production, via, for example, soil biota, pollinators, and predators; Ecological services provided by agro-ecosystems, such as landscape protection, soil protection and health, water cycle and quality, air quality. Tropical Agricultural biodiversity (TRAB) is highly dynamic journal, also determined by a matrix of ‘human’ factors and feedbacks, in addition to underlying natural conditions. There is increasing realization of the importance of tropical agricultural biodiversity at the ecosystems level, as well as at the species and genetic level, and the agro-ecosystems approach to tropical agricultural biodiversity conservation is widely promoted. Tropical Agrobiodiversity (TRAB) intends to cover the state-of-the-art, recent progress and perspectives in different aspects related to the tropical biodiversity of ecosystems. All types of manuscripts (original research, reviews, short communications, letter to editor and discussion) are welcome.

Tropical Agrobiodiversity (TRAB) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Agricultural , Online , Bi-Annual Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN E-ISSN: 2716-7046, Established: 2020,
• Does Not Provide Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE