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Bellon, M.R.

Conceptualizing interventions to support on-farm genetic resource conservation - United Kingdom : Elsevier, 2004. - Computer File

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Interest is increasing worldwide in on-farm conservation as a component of a strategy to conserve crop genetic resources. This may require outside support to small-scale farmers in areas of crop diversity. This paper argues that crop diversity maintained by farming households results from the interplay between a demand and a supply for this diversity. Interventions to support on-farm conservation can be conceptualized by the way they influence these two factors. Demand interventions should increase the value of crop diversity for farmers or decrease the farm-level opportunity costs of maintaining it, while supply interventions should decrease the costs of accessing diversity.


Text in English

ISSN: 0305-750X

Standard No.: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.04.007

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Crops
Diversification
Genetic erosion
On-farm conservation