Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

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1. Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons

   Challenges in International Law and Governance

   Edited by Michael Halewood, Isabel Lopez Noriega, Selim Louafi

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation – improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials – since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and were...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security

   Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

   Edited by Christine Frison, Francisco Lopez, Jose Esquinas-Alcazar

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route map for the use of such resources for sustainable agriculture and food security. Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security explains clearly the...

   Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge
3. Crop Wild Relatives

   A Manual of in situ Conservation

   Edited by Danny Hunter, Vernon Heywood

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant species which are more or less closely related to crops. They are a vital resource by providing a pool of genetic variation that can be used in breeding new and better adapted varieties of crops that are resistant to stress, disease, drought and other factors....

   Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Economics of Managing Crop Diversity On-farm

   Case studies from the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative

   Edited by Edilegnaw Wale, Adam G. Drucker, Kerstin K. Zander

   Series: Issues in Agricultural Biodiversity

   The purpose of this book is to assess a variety of economic issues as they relate to agro-biodiversity and show how addressing these issues can assist in agro-biodiversity policy-making. This is illustrated using empirical data from some of the countries (Ethiopia, Nepal and Zambia) which are part...

   Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge