Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kontoleon, Andreas; Smale, Melinda; Pascual, Unai

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The economics of agrobiodiversity is a new and expanding area within the natural and social sciences and environmental and agricultural economics in particular. This book provides a thorough, structured, and authoritative coverage of this field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134039104
• Artikelnr.: 42640490

Autorenporträt

Andreas Kontoleon is a lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK. Unai Pascual is a lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK. Melinda Smale leads a global research program about economics and genetic resources at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Agrodiversity for Economic Development: What do we know? Part 1: Policy
Perspectives 2. Managing Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustainable Use:
Balancing the Benefits in the Field 3. Do we have an Adequate Global
Strategy for Securing the Biodiversity of Major Food Crops? 4. Do We Need
Crop Landraces for the Future? Realizing the global option value of in situ
conservation 5. Marketing Underutilized Plant Species for the Poor: A
Conceptual Framework 6. Non-Market Institutions for Agrobiodiversity
Conservation 7. Development, Intensification and the Conservation of Farm
Animal Genetic Resources Part 2: Multiple Objectives, Trade Offs and
Synergies between Productivity and Agrobiodiversity 8. Biodiversity
Conservation and Productivity in Intensive Agricultural Systems 9. Pricing
Agrobiodiversity: A Stochastic Approach to Model Environmental Efficiency
10. Diversity, Productivity and Resilience in Agro-Ecosystems: An Example
from Cereal Production in Southern Italy 11. The Role of Crop Genetic
Diversity in Coping with Drought: Insights from Eastern Ethiopia 12. A
Trade-Off Analysis between Rangeland Health and Income Generation in
Southern Namibia 13. Estimating the Interactions of Soil Biota and
Agricultural Practices 14. Estimating the value of Milpa Diversity and
Genetically Modified Maize to Farmers in Mexico: A Choice Experiment
Approach 15. Can Greening Markets Help Conserve Landraces in Situ?
Eggplants in India Part 3: Market & Non-Market Institutions for
Agrobiodiversity Conservation 16. Agro-Biodiversity as Natural Insurance
and the Development of Financial Markets 17. Determinants of Collaborative
Conservation Costs of Coffea Arabica's Wild Populations in Montane
Rainforest of Southwestern Ethiopia 18. Agrobiodiversity in Poor Countries
- Price Premiums Deemed to Miss Multifaceted Targets? 19. Market
Participation and Crop Biodiversity in a Developing Economy: Banana'a in
Uganda 20. The Value of Ecosystem Sevices and Agrobiodiversity in Central
Sulawesi 21. Farmers' Participation in Agri-Environmental Programs and
Impact on Farm Performance: An Empirical Analysis Applied to Swedish
Agriculture 22. Over-Compensation Payments for Agro-Biodiversity
Conservation