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Valuing Crop Biodiversity
On-Farm Genetic Resources and Economic Change
Hardback
December 2005
9780851990835
More details
- Publisher
CABI - Published
12th December 2005 - ISBN 9780851990835
- Language English
- Pages 336 pp.
- Size 6.875" x 9.75"
$206.40
This book examines the challenges faced by farmers trying to maintain crop biodiversity in developing and transitional economies. Using a collection of empirical case studies of farmers and crop scientists across a range of agricultural economies and income levels, it presents economic tools and methods for valuing and managing crop biodiversity. It discusses the economic benefits of crop biodiversity for farmers and suggests ways in which crop biodiversity can be supported by national policies. The book provides an indispensable "tool kit" for all those concerned with the development of strategies to facilitate sustainable management and conservation of crop genetic diversity for future generations.
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Concepts, Metrics, and Plan of the Book
Part II: Private Value: Stated Preferences of Farmers
Crop valuation and farmer response to change: Implications for in situ conservation of maize in Mexico
Farmer demand for agricultural biodiversity in Hungary's transition economy: A Choice experiment approach
Demand for attributes and on farm conservation of coffee in Ethiopia
Part III: Private Value: Revealed Preferences of Farmers
Missing markets, migration and crop biodiversity in the Mexican milpa system: A household farm model
Determinants of cereal diversity on household farms in the highlands of northern Ethiopia
Demand for cultivar attributes and the biodiversity of bananas in Uganda
Farmer management of agricultural biodiversity in Hungary's transition economy
Rural development and the diversity of potatoes on farms in Cajamarca, Peru
Part IV: Public Values, Villages and Institutions
Managing rice biodiversity on farms: The choices of farmers and breeders in Nepal
Determinants of cereal diversity in villages of Northern Ethiopia
Social institutions and seed systems: the diversity of fruits and nuts in Uzbekistan
Village seed systems and the biological diversity of millet crops in southern India
Seeds supply and on farm demand for diversity: a case study of Eastern Ethiopia
Institutions, stakeholders, and the management of crop genetic sources on Hungarian family farms
Cooperatives, wheat diversity and crop productivity in southern Italy
Part V: Conclusions
Scope, limitations and future directions
An annotated bibliography of published literature about the economics of conserving crop biological diversity on farms