@article{Johnson:178085,
      recid = {178085},
      author = {Johnson, N.L. and Pachico, D. and Voysest, O.},
      title = {The distribution of benefits from public international  germplasm banks: the case of beans in Latin America},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {2003-12},
      number = {968-2016-75790},
      pages = {10},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {The unrestricted international flow of genetic resources  from international genebank collections is the source of  perhaps
one of the greatest impacts of international  agricultural research. This paper examines the distribution  across countries in Latin
America of benefits generated  from bean genetic resources held by the International  Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
The genealogies of  commercial bean cultivars released since 1976, containing  materials from the collection, are analysed to
calculate  for each country the source of the genetic resources used.  All countries in the region are shown to be heavily  dependent
on imported genetic resources for their  commercial cultivars. From the available information on the  economic impact of these
improved bean varieties, the share  of economic productivity benefits associated with imported  germplasm by country of origin
is calculated. The benefits  received by each country from improved bean germplasm are  compared with the contribution of
that country's germplasm  to other countries. Some of the patterns in the flow and  use of genetic resources are analysed.
© 2003 Elsevier B.V.  All rights reserved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/178085},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.178085},
}