Agrobiodiversity, Conservation and Economic Development

by Kontoleon, Andreas; Pascual, Unai; Smale, Melinda

• ISBN13: 9780203890127
• ISBN10: 0203890124
• Copyright: 2008-10-03
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

The economics of agrobiodiversity is a new and expanding area within the natural and social sciences and environmental and agricultural economics in particular. This book provides a thorough, structured, and authoritative coverage of this field.

Table of Contents

1. Agrodiversity for Economic Development: What do we know? Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual and Melinda Smale , Part 1: Policy Perspectives , 2. Managing Agricultural Biodiversityfor Sustainable Use:Balancing the Benefits in the Field Leslie Lipper and David Cooper, 3. Do we have an Adequate Global Strategyfor Securing the Biodiversityof Major Food Crops? Melinda Smale, Peter Hazell, Cary Fowler, and Toby Hodgkin, 4. Do we Need Crop Landraces for the Future? Realizing the global option value of in situ conservation Mauricio R. Bellon, 5. Marketing UnderutilizedPlant Speciesfor the Poor:A Conceptual Framework Guillaume Grure, Alessandra Giuliani, Melinda Smale, 6. Non-Market Institutions forAgrobiodiversity Conservation Ruth. Meinzen-Dick, Pablo Eyzaguirre, 7.Development, Intensification andthe Conservationof FarmAnimal Genetic Resources Luis Rodriguez and Adam Drucker, Part 2: Multiple Objectives, Trade Offs and Synergies between Productivity and Agrobiodiversity , 8.Biodiversity Conservationand Productivity inIntensive Agricultural Systems Amani Omer, Unai Pascual, Noel Russell, 9. Pricing Agrobiodiversity: AStochasticApproach toModel Environmental Efficiency Johannes Sauer, 10.Diversity, Productivityand Resiliencein Agro-Ecosystems:An ExamplefromCerealProduction in Southern Italy Salvatore Di Falco, Jean-Paul Chavas, 11. The role of crop genetic diversity in coping with drought: Insights from eastern Ethiopia Leslie Lipper, Romina Cavatassi, Jeffrey Hopkins, 12.A Trade-Off AnalysisbetweenRangeland Healthand Income Generation in Southern Namibia Stéphanie Domptail, Alexander Popp, Ernst-August Nuppenau, 13.Estimating the Interactionsof Soil Biotaand Agricultural Practices Sébastien Foudi, 14. Estimating the value of Milpa Diversity and Genetically Modified Maize to Farmers in Mexico: AChoice Experiment Approach Ekin Birol, Eric Rayn Villalba, 15.Can Greening Markets HelpConserve Landracesin Situ? Eggplants in India. Vijesh V. Krishna and Unai Pascual, Part 3: Market &Non-MarketInstitutions forAgrobiodiversity Conservation , 16. Agro-Biodiversityas Natural Insuranceand the Development ofFinancial Markets Stefan Baumgartner and Martin F. Quaas, 17. Determinants ofCollaborative Conservation Costsof Coffea Arabica'sWild Populationsin MontaneRainforest ofSouthwestern Ethiopia Aseffa Seyoum, Bezabih Emana, Franz Gatzweiler, Belaineh Legesse, 18.Agrobiodiversity in PoorCountries Price Premiums Deemedto Miss Multifaceted Targets? Mitri Kitti, Jaakko Heikkil, Anni Huhtala, 19.Market Participationand CropBiodiversity ina Developing Economy:Banana'a in Uganda Svetlana Edmeades and Melinda Smale, 20.The Value of EcosystemSevices andAgrobiodiversity in CentralSulawesi Klaus Glenk, Jan Barkmann, Rainer Marggraf, 21.Farmers' Participation inAgri-EnvironmentalPrograms and Impacton Farm Performance: An Empirical Analysis Applied toSwedish Agriculture Karin Larsén, 22. Over-CompensationPayments for Agro-BiodiversityConservation Cornelia Ohl, Martin Drechsler, Karin Johst, Frank Watzold