Farmers' Preferences for Crop Variety Traits: Lessons for On-farm Conservation and Technology Adoption

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Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation decisions among small farm holders in developing countries.

Experiments

Seeds for livelihood: Crop biodiversity and food production in Ethiopia

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This paper uses a farm level panel data from Ethiopia and a comprehensive empirical strategy to investigate the contribution of crop biodiversity on food production.

We find that increasing the number of crop variety increases production. This result is stronger when rainfall level is lower. Moreover, the productivity analysis is complemented with the study of the determinants of farm level crop biodiversity. Empirical results suggest that rainfall, tenure security and household endowments tend to govern crop diversity decisions at the farm level.

Agriculture

Using Economic Incentives to encourage Conservation in Bioregions in South Africa

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While many factors might affect biodiversity conservation, the use of economic incentives is argued to be potentially one of the most effective mechanisms for mainstreaming biodiversityconservation in bioregions. Institutions are singled out as one important class of socio-economic arrangements directly associated with economic incentives.

Conservation

“Governance of the R&D Sector for Bio-Technology: Intellectual Property Rights and Bio-Prospecting”

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The efficient governance of information-production is analysed in the context of the bio-technology industry. Here primary R&D generates pure abstract information on the nature of biological solution concepts, while secondary R&D generates commercial products marketable to consumers.

Policy Design

“The Values of Conserving Genetic Resources for R&D: A Survey”

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The value of genetic resources for R&D is placed within the framework of discussions concerning sustainability. We assess the extent to which society is able to invest now in order to prepare for future risks and uncertainties in the arrival of biological problems.

Policy Design

Unobserved Diversity, Depletion and Irreversibility: The Importance of Subpopulations for Manangement of Cod Stocks

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Diversity is often associated with resilience but in this model, unobserved genetic or behavioral diversity can explain the collapse of supposedly regulated fish stocks such as cod. Recent studies have shown the existence of separate sub stocks of cod even at a very fine geographical scale.

Fisheries