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Saving seeds: the economics of conserving crop genetic resources ex situ in the future harvest centres of the CGIAR

Book information

Publisher
CABI
Year
2004
ISBN
0-85199-859-3
DOI
10.1079/9780851998596.0000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1162939 bytes)
Pages
233\233
Time added
2016-01-24 03:00:00

Description

This book provides details of the economic studies, led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in collaboration with the 5 Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) centres, namely CIAT (based in Colombia), CIMMYT (Mexico), ICARDA (Syria), ICRISAT (India) and IRRI (Philippines), on the costs of the conservation, use and distribution of germplasm in ex situ gene banks, and discusses their policy and management implications. It represents invaluable research of interest to those working in crop conservation, plant breeding and genetics, as well as agricultural economics and policy. Available In Print

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