Saving seeds : the economics of conserving crop genetic resources ex situ in the future harvest centres of the CGIAR /

The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning ''away from the source'') storage of particula...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koo, Bonwoo
Otros Autores: Pardey, Philip G., Wright, Brian, 1948 January 1-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., ©2004.
Colección:Cabi Ser.
Temas:
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Crops > Germplasm resources.
Gene banks, Plant.
Crop zones.
Crops, Agricultural
Cultures > Ressources génétiques.
Banques de gènes végétaux.
Zones de cultures.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Agricultural economics.
Agricultural policy.
CGIAR.
CIMMYT.
Conservation.
Costs.
Gene banks.
Germplasm.
Germplasm exchange.
ICARDA.
ICRISAT.
International organizations.
IRRI.
Plant genetic resources.
Crop zones
Crops > Germplasm resources
Gene banks, Plant
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Dedication; 1 Introduction; 2 The Economics of Genebank Costing*; 3 CIMMYT Genebank*; 4 ICARDA Genebank; 5 ICRISAT Genebank; 6 IRRI Genebank; 7 CIAT Genebank; 8 Policy and Management Implications; Appendix A In-perpetuity Costs of Recurrent Expense and Annualized Cost of Capital; Appendix B Notes on Tables; References; Index.

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