**Importance of Underutilized Field Crops for Increasing Functional Biodiversity Functional Biodiversity**

**Importance of Underutilized Field Crops for Increasing** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.70472

Franc Bavec, Urška Lisec and Martina Bavec Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Franc Bavec, Urška Lisec and Martina Bavec

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70472

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Despite the suggestions to include two or three crops into crop rotation that is widely considered to support the richer biodiversity on fields, industrial field crop production systems are still based mainly on monoculture, where the farmers produce permanently mainly one crop. Review and analyses of different possibilities showed that more diverse functional (also important for diverse nutritional and health products of food) biodiversity of underutilized field crops needs to be established, especially if beneficial social and economic effects of introducing underutilized crops into small-scale farms are taken into account. We can conclude that functional biodiversity based on rich crop rotations associated with underutilized crops increases biodiversity in the soil and has an effect on richer and sustainable behavior of cultural plants with good balance of pests and plant diseases.

**Keywords:** underutilized crops, alternative crops, biodiversity, functional biodiversity, crop rotation
