@article{Smale:178082,
      recid = {178082},
      author = {Smale, M. and Bellon, Mauricio R. and Aguirre, J.A. and  Rosas, I. Manuel and Mendoza, Jorge and Solano, A.M. and  Martinez, R. and Ramirez, A. and Berthaud, Julien},
      title = {The economic costs and benefits of a participatory project  to conserve maize landraces on farms in Oaxaca, Mexico*},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {2003-12},
      number = {968-2016-75800},
      pages = {12},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {Conventional methods were used to assess the benefits and  costs of an unconventional project whose purpose was to  test
whether participatory crop improvement can encourage  Mexican farmers to continue growing maize landraces by  enhancing
their current use value. Findings suggest that  farmers as a group earned a high benefit-cost ratio from  participating, though
from the perspective of the private  investor the returns were low. The project also generated  social benefits, but these would
be difficult (and costly)  to measure. There was a gender bias in both participation  and benefits distributions, though there is
some evidence  of a welfare transfer to maize deficit households.  Application of other valuation approaches will be  necessary
in order to assess both the private and social  benefits of similar projects.
© 2003 Elsevier B. V. All  rights reserved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/178082},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.178082},
}