VARIETY CHARACTERISTICS AND THE LAND ALLOCATION DECISIONS OF FARMERS IN A CENTER OF MAIZE DIVERSITY
Smale, Melinda; Bellon, Mauricio R.; Aguirre, Alfonso
1998

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There is emerging interest in the prospects for enhancing farmers' management of genetic resources as a complementary strategy to ex situ conservation. Using a framework that combines a characteristics model with the notion of impure public goods, we investigate farmers' incentives to grow the varieties identified as important genetic resources.

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Title VARIETY CHARACTERISTICS AND THE LAND ALLOCATION DECISIONS OF FARMERS IN A CENTER OF MAIZE DIVERSITY
Author(s) Smale, Melinda
Bellon, Mauricio R.
Aguirre, Alfonso
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Issue Date 1998
Publication Type Conference Paper/ Presentation
DOI and Other Identifiers 10.22004/ag.econ.20831
Record Identifier https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/20831
PURL Identifier http://purl.umn.edu/20831
Language English
Total Pages 12
Series Statement Selected Paper
Record Appears in Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) > Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Conferences > 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT

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