The Society for Conservation Biology has a catalogue of social sciences tools for conservation. There are 270 items listed in the catalog, which you can search in various different ways. Quick searches for such keywords as “agriculture” and “crop” only generated a couple of hits, but I think many of the tools included (things like gender analysis and participatory rural assessment) will be relevant to the conservation of agricultural biodiversity. 1 There’s also a more biologically-inclined catalog of tools.
- The original link was broken, so I replaced it with a reference to the Wayback Machine in 2025. But the Society has a new page on social science tools.