Saving Seeds: The Economics of Conserving Crop Genetic Resources Ex Situ in the Future Harvest Centres of the Cgiar - Couverture rigide

Koo, Bonwoo; Pardey, Philip G.; Wright, Brian

 
9780851998596: Saving Seeds: The Economics of Conserving Crop Genetic Resources Ex Situ in the Future Harvest Centres of the Cgiar
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0851998593 ISBN 13 : 9780851998596
Editeur : CABI Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning "away from the source") storage of particular classes of crops. Since the 1970s, the eleven genebanks maintained by the centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) have become pivotal to the global conservation effort. However, key policy and management issues - usually with economic dimensions - have largely been overlooked.This provided the impetus for a series of detailed economic studies, led by IFPRI, in collaboration with five CGIAR centres: CIAT (based in Colombia), CIMMYT (Mexico), ICARDA (Syria), ICRISAT (India) and IRRI (Philippines). This book reports these studies and discusses their wider implications.

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Éditeur
CABI Publishing
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0851998593
ISBN 13 
9780851998596
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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