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Seed Trade in Rural Markets: Implications for Crop Diversity and Agricultural Development

Seed Trade in Rural Markets: Implications for Crop Diversity and Agricultural Development

Dalton, Timothy J.
Anderson, C. Leigh
Lipper, Leslie

Paperback

AgricultureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1844077853
ISBN13: 9781844077854
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 27 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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