@article{93e9220bbe364bf7ac610edd5c67691e,
title = "Conceptualizing interventions to support on-farm genetic resource conservation",
abstract = "Interest is increasing worldwide in on-farm conservation as a component of a strategy to conserve crop genetic resources. This may require outside support to small-scale farmers in areas of crop diversity. This paper argues that crop diversity maintained by farming households results from the interplay between a demand and a supply for this diversity. Interventions to support on-farm conservation can be conceptualized by the way they influence these two factors. Demand interventions should increase the value of crop diversity for farmers or decrease the farm-level opportunity costs of maintaining it, while supply interventions should decrease the costs of accessing diversity.",
keywords = "Crop diversity, Genetic erosion, Interventions, Latin America, Mexico, On-farm conservation",
author = "Bellon, {Mauricio R.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was carried out with a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. It is part of a project on CG Maize Diversity Conservation: A Farmer-Scientist Collaborative Approach, implemented jointly by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Mexico{\textquoteright}s National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture, and Livestock Research (INIFAP). The author gratefully acknowledges the work of the project team (Flavio Arag{\'o}n, Julien Berthaud, Jos{\'e} Alfonso Aguirre G{\'o}mez, Jorge Mendoza, Irma Manuel Rosas, Melinda Smale, and Suketoshi Taba) without whom, this paper could not have been written. Stephen B. Brush, Melinda Smale, Robert Tripp, Janet Lauderdale, and an anonymous reviewer provided much-appreciated comments and suggestions on a draft of this paper. Satwant Kaur provided editorial assistance. This paper is based on a presentation entitled “Farmers{\textquoteright} incentives for on farm conservation of crop diversity,” given at the meeting “Brainstorming on Agro-biodiversity: Considerations for the GEF,” convened by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environmental Facility in Barbados, February 21–22, 2000.",
year = "2004",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.04.007",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "32",
pages = "159--172",
journal = "World Development",
issn = "0305-750X",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
number = "1",
}