Consulta: creatorFacets:"Estrella,   Jaime"
Registros recuperados: 1
Data/hora: 09/06/2024 10:25:55

Computing Opportunity Costs of Growing Local Varieties for On-farm Conservation: Illustrations Using Sorghum Data from Ethiopia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Wale,   Edilegnaw; Mburu,   John G.; Estrella,   Jaime.
The recent shift of emphasis to on-farm conservation is driven by its diverse attractive features - participatory nature, dynamic nature, capacity to maintain not only crop diversity but the knowledge that evolves with it, the chance it offers and the challenge it brings to link conservation with farmers' livelihood. To make it operational, placing incentives and removal of perverse incentives are of critical importance. However, before placing sound incentives compatible to farmers' circumstances, the opportunity costs farmers face when using local varieties of public interest should be understood. This paper empirically examines farmers' opportunity costs of maintaining local varieties of sorghum using a household survey data collected from 198 sorghum...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Opportunity costs; Incentive design; On-farm conservation; Crop genetic resources; Ethiopia; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25675