Genes in the Field: On-Farm Conservation of Crop Diversity

by Brush, Stephen B.

• ISBN13: 9781566704052
• ISBN10: 1566704057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc

Summary

A primary goal of agricultural research is to develop technology that will enable the world's farmers to produce enough food in a manner that is sustainable and economically viable. Genes In the Field: Conserving Crop Diversity on Farms is a comprehensive collection of papers focusing on agricultural conservation and diversity issues throughout the world.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Cary Fowler
Geoffrey C. Hawtin
Toby Hodgkin
Section I. Introduction and overview
The issues of in situ conservation of crop genetic resources	3	(26)
Stephen B. Brush
Section II. Population biology and social science
The genetic structure of crop landraces and the challenge to conserve them in situ on farms	29	(22)
Anthony H. D. Brown
Section III. Case studies
Barley landraces from the Fertile Crescent: a lesson for plant breeders	51	(26)
Salvatore Ceccarelli
Stefania Grando
The barleys of Ethiopia	77	(32)
Zemede Asfaw
Traditional management of seed and genetic diversity: what is a landrace?	109	(34)
Dominique Louette
Keeping diversity alive: an Ethiopian perspective	143	(22)
Melaku Worede
Tesfaye Tesemma
Regassa Feyissa
Section IV. Policy and institutional issues
Optimal genetic resource conservation: in situ and ex situ	165	(28)
Timothy Swanson
Timo Goeschl
The Cultures of the Seed in the Peruvian Andes	193	(24)
Tirso A. Gonzales
On-farm conservation of crop diversity: policy and institutional lessons from Zimbabwe	217	(22)
Elizabeth Cromwell
Saskia van Oosterhout
In situ conservation and intellectual property rights	239	(22)
Carlos M. Correa
Farmer decision making and genetic diversity: linking multidisciplinary research to implementation on-farm	261	(18)
Devra Jarvis
Toby Hodgkin
Index	279