The economic costs and benefits of a participatory project to conserve maize landraces on farms in Oaxaca, Mexico

Business & Economics

• Maize 93%
• Economic Cost 82%
• Social Benefits 80%
• Economic Benefits 70%
• Costs and Benefits 68%
• Farm 65%
• Mexico 64%
• Farmers 61%
• Gender Bias 51%
• Benefit-cost Ratio 48%
• Private Benefits 47%
• Use Value 47%
• Private Investors 45%
• Crops 38%
• Participation 28%
• Household 24%

Agriculture & Biology

• social benefit 100%
• economic costs 99%
• landraces 74%
• Mexico 62%
• farmers 53%
• farms 50%
• corn 47%
• households 35%
• gender 23%
• crops 20%
• testing 14%
• methodology 10%