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Title

Seed trade in rural markets : implications for crop diversity and agricultural development / edited by Leslie Lipper, C. Leigh Anderson and Timothy J. Dalton.

Publication

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Lipper, Leslie.
• Anderson, C. Leigh, 1960-
• Dalton, Timothy J.

Description

xxiii, 232 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Improving the performance of agricultural markets is a keystone of current agricultural development policy. A major thrust of this effort is to increase the returns to agricultural production by improving farmer's access to markets. Markets have been found to be an increasingly important source of the seeds of crops and varieties low income farmers need to improve their livelihoods, encompassing both the formal and informal seed sector. Markets also have major impacts on agricultural biodiversity, by affecting farmers' choice of crops and varieties to grow. They are not, however, a homogenous institution, although all too frequently policies and regulations are developed as though they were. Markets vary considerably depending on the participants, on the institutions that govern how and what they exchange, and on local agricultural, economic and social conditions. Developing effective strategies to improve the way agricultural markets work, including how farmers use crop genetic resources, requires understanding of these variations.
• Seed Trade in Rural Markets presents a unique set of case studies from Bolivia, India, Kenya, Mali and Mexico on agricultural seed and product markets that describe three important market characteristics expected to affect farmers' access to seeds and varieties: the range of varieties on offer, the information provided about them, and relative prices. The case studies, all based around a common framework to aid comparability, also provide information on social, agricultural and economic factors which may be affecting the market availability, information, and cost of crop genetic resources, and ultimately the capacity to stimulate agricultural development."--pub. desc.

Subject

• Seed industry and trade > Case studies
• Seed industry and trade > Developing countries > Case studies
• Seed exchanges > Case studies
• Seed exchanges > Developing countries > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Agricultural markets and the sustainable utilization of crop genetic resources / Leslie Lipper [and others] -- Markets and access to crop genetic resources / Timothy J. Dalton [and others] -- Project methodology: using markets to promote the sustainable utilization of crop genetic resources / C. Leigh Anderson [and others] -- When grain markets supply seed: village markets for millet and sorghum in the Malian Sahel / Melinda Smale, Lamissa Diakité, Mikkel Grum -- Potato seed supply and diversity: dynamics of local markets of Cochabamba Province, Bolivia -- a case study / Connie Almekinders [and others] -- Pigeonpea seed supply and diversity: a case study of local seed markets in Makueni District, eastern Kenya / Patrick Audi [and others] -- Access to minor millet genetic resources in rural market towns of Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu, India / Latha Nagarajan [and others] -- Mexico: maize and Chiapas case study / Jon Hellin [and others] -- Synthesis: markets, seed systems and crop diversity / Mauricio R. Bellon [and others] -- Conclusions and policy implications / Leslie Lipper [and others].

ISBN

• 9781844077847 (hardback)
• 1844077845 (hardback)
• 9781844077854 (pbk.)
• 1844077853 (pbk.)
• 9789251061732 (FAO)
• 9251061734 (FAO)

LCCN

^^2009027182

OCLC

• 320189038
• SCSB-11487107

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Harvard Library