implications for crop diversity and agricultural development /
edited by Leslie Lipper, C. Leigh Anderson and Timothy J. Dalton.
Sterling, VA :
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
2010.
1 online resource (xxiii, 232 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Agricultural markets and the sustainable utilization of crop genetic resources / Leslie Lipper [and others] -- Markets and access to crop genetic resources / Timothy J. Dalton [and others] -- Project methodology: using markets to promote the sustainable utilization of crop genetic resources / C. Leigh Anderson [and others] -- When grain markets supply seed : village markets for millet and sorghum in the Malian Sahel / Melinda Smale, Lamissa Diakité, Mikkel Grum -- Potato seed supply and diversity : dynamics of local markets of Cochabamba Province, Bolivia -- a case study / Connie Almekinders [and others] -- Pigeonpea seed supply and diversity : a case study of local seed markets in Makueni District, eastern Kenya / Patrick Audi [and others] -- Access to minor millet genetic resources in rural market towns of Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India / Latha Nagarajan [and others] -- Mexico : maize and Chiapas case study / Jon Hellin [and others] -- Synthesis : markets, seed systems and crop diversity / Mauricio R. Bellon [and others] -- Conclusions and policy implications / Leslie Lipper [and others].
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Markets have been found to be an increasingly important source of the seeds of crops and varieties low income farmers need to improve their livelihoods, encompassing both the formal and informal seed sector. Markets also have major impacts on agricultural biodiversity, by affecting farmers' choice of crops and varieties to grow. They are not, however, a homogenous institution, although all too frequently policies and regulations are developed as though they were. Markets vary considerably depending on the participants, on the institutions that govern how and what they exchange, and on local ag.
Seed trade in rural markets.
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