Saving seeds : the economics of conserving crop genetic resources ex situ in the future harvest centres of the CGIAR / Bonwoo Koo, Philip G. Pardey, and Brian D. Wright ; with Paula Bramel [and others]
Contributors; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Dedication; 1 Introduction; 2 The Economics of Genebank Costing*; 3 CIMMYT Genebank*; 4 ICARDA Genebank; 5 ICRISAT Genebank; 6 IRRI Genebank; 7 CIAT Genebank; 8 Policy and Management Implications; Appendix A In-perpetuity Costs of Recurrent Expense and Annualized Cost of Capital; Appendix B Notes on Tables; References; Index
Summary
The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning ''away from the source'') storage of particular classes of crops
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196) and index
