Saving Seeds – The Economics of Conserving Crop Genetic Resources Ex Situ in th…

Saving Seeds – The Economics of Conserving Crop Genetic Resources Ex Situ in th…

Saving SeedsThe Economics of Conserving Crop Genetic Resources Ex Situ in the Future Harvest Centres of CGIAR\nAuthor(s): Bonwoo Koo, Philip G. Pardey, Brian Wright\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: CABI Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: CABI Publishing\nISBN-13: 9780851998596, 978-0851998596\nSynopsis\nThe conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the worlds 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 [url] provided the impetus for a series of detailed economic studies, led by IFPRI, in collaboration with five CGIAR .

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