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Crop Genetic Resources as a Global Commons : Challenges in International Law and Governance.

Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation - improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials - since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and were d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halewood, Michael
Otros Autores: Noriega, Isabel Lopez, Louafi, Selim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Issues in agricultural biodiversity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation - improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials - since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and were driven by) imperialism, colonization, emigration, trade, development assistance and climate change. As crops have moved around the world, and agricultural innovation and production systems have expanded, so too has the scope and coverage of pools of shared plant genetic resources that support thos.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (411 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136529498
1136529497
9781849776813
1849776814