@article{75acb9c99e9d4aae95cbbf71e9f4db9b,
title = "Seed systems and farmers' seed choices: The case of maize in the Peruvian Amazon",
abstract = "This paper analyzes how local seed system institutions support seed diversity, itself a requirement for agrobiodiversity maintained on-farm. The paper focuses on maize seed diversity in the central Peruvian Amazon. Using household and community level data from three different cultural groups from the central Peruvian Amazon, empirical results show the importance of collective action and the mediating role of ethnicity in the functioning of informal seed systems that in turn affect farmers' choices regarding conservation of seed diversity. This implies that policies are needed to protect the relatively open seed exchanges of such local practices as a way to sustain on-farm agrobiodiversity.",
keywords = "Agrobiodiversity, Collective action, Ethnicity, Peru",
author = "Stromberg, {Per M.} and Unai Pascual and Bellon, {Mauricio R.}",
note = "Funding Information: The survey was carried out as part of the project “Adaptive management of seed systems and gene flow for sustainable agriculture and improved livelihoods in the humid tropics of Mexico, Cuba, and Peru.” The project, coordinated by Bioversity International and financed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), was carried out by a Peru-Mexico-Cuba team of agronomists, economists and sociologists. Local project collaborators from the Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Ucayali (CODESU) collected the data. Funding Information: Acknowledgements We would like to thank the Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Ucayali (CODESU), in particular Luis Collado and Roger Pinedo, for data collection and technical support in the field. Special thanks are also owed to community members in the Peruvian Amazon and to Manuel Glave, Ricardo Sevilla, Claudia Ituarte, Ernesto Apto, Luis Limachi, Isabel Ore, Elinor Ostrom and Christine Padoch for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Financial support from the Cambridge European Trust, CT Taylor Fund and St Edmunds College, Cambridge, is acknowledged. Lastly, we thank Judith Thompson for editorial assistance.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/s10745-010-9333-3",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "38",
pages = "539--553",
journal = "Human Ecology",
issn = "0300-7839",
publisher = "Springer Science + Business Media",
number = "4",
}