@article{Wright:118009,
      recid = {118009},
      author = {Wright, Brian D.},
      title = {Crop genetic resource policy: the role of ex situ  genebanks},
      journal = {Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {1997},
      number = {428-2016-27534},
      pages = {35},
      year = {1997},
      abstract = {The world-wide capacity of genebanks for ex situ  conservation of crop genetic
resources has increased  greatly since the 1970s, improving the access of  crop
breeders to landraces and wild and weedy relatives.  But utilization of genebank
resources has not kept pace.  The set of popular cultivars in major crops is
typically  rather small, and their ancestry encompasses only a  fraction of the
genetic diversity currently available in  other cultivars. Discussions of farmers'
rights that focus  on compensation for current incorporation of farmers'  varieties
in new cultivars have diverted attention from the  question of why so little of the
newly accessible genetic  diversity is currently being utilized by public and  private
breeders. To optimize the future provision of  genebank services, research is
needed on the costs of  genebanks, the market for their services, the use of  genetic
resources by breeders, and the implications of  recognition of farmers' rights,
evolving intellectual  property rights, continued funding problems and  developments in biotechnology.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/118009},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.118009},
}