The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation
Crop wild relatives (CWR) have proven to be very valuable in agricultural breeding programs but remain a relatively under-utilized and under-protected resource. CWR have provided resistance to pests and diseases, abiotic stress tolerance, quality improvements and yield increases with the annual cont...
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| author | Tyack, Nicholas Dempewolf, Hannes Khoury, Colin K. |
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| description | Crop wild relatives (CWR) have proven to be very valuable in agricultural breeding programs but remain a relatively under-utilized and under-protected resource. CWR have provided resistance to pests and diseases, abiotic stress tolerance, quality improvements and yield increases with the annual contribution of these traits to agriculture estimated at USD 115 billion globally and are considered to possess many valuable traits that have not yet been explored. The use of the genetic diversity found in CWR for breeding provides much-needed resilience to modern agricultural systems and has great potential to help sustainably increase agricultural production to feed a growing world population in the face of climate change and other stresses. A number of CWR taxa are at risk, however, necessitating coordinated local, national, regional and global efforts to preserve the genetic diversity of these plants through complementary in situ and ex situ conservation efforts. We discuss the absence of adequate institutional frameworks to incentivize CWR conservation services and propose payment for ecosystem services (PES) as an under-explored mechanism for financing these efforts. Such mechanisms could serve as a potentially powerful tool for enhancing the long-term protection of CWR. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1097522025-11-11T17:42:07Z The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation Tyack, Nicholas Dempewolf, Hannes Khoury, Colin K. crop wild relatives especies silvestres afin a las plantas cultivadas climate change cambio climatico ecology Crop wild relatives (CWR) have proven to be very valuable in agricultural breeding programs but remain a relatively under-utilized and under-protected resource. CWR have provided resistance to pests and diseases, abiotic stress tolerance, quality improvements and yield increases with the annual contribution of these traits to agriculture estimated at USD 115 billion globally and are considered to possess many valuable traits that have not yet been explored. The use of the genetic diversity found in CWR for breeding provides much-needed resilience to modern agricultural systems and has great potential to help sustainably increase agricultural production to feed a growing world population in the face of climate change and other stresses. A number of CWR taxa are at risk, however, necessitating coordinated local, national, regional and global efforts to preserve the genetic diversity of these plants through complementary in situ and ex situ conservation efforts. We discuss the absence of adequate institutional frameworks to incentivize CWR conservation services and propose payment for ecosystem services (PES) as an under-explored mechanism for financing these efforts. Such mechanisms could serve as a potentially powerful tool for enhancing the long-term protection of CWR. 2020-10-02 2020-10-07T00:46:38Z 2020-10-07T00:46:38Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109752 en Open Access application/pdf MDPI Tyack, N.; Dempewolf, H.; Khoury, C.K. The Potential of Payment for Ecosystem Services for Crop Wild Relative Conservation (2020). Plants-Basel 9(10) 14 p. ISSN: 2223-7747 |
| spellingShingle | crop wild relatives especies silvestres afin a las plantas cultivadas climate change cambio climatico ecology Tyack, Nicholas Dempewolf, Hannes Khoury, Colin K. The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation |
| title | The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation |
| title_full | The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation |
| title_fullStr | The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation |
| title_short | The potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation |
| title_sort | potential of payment for ecosystem services for crop wild relative conservation |
| topic | crop wild relatives especies silvestres afin a las plantas cultivadas climate change cambio climatico ecology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/109752 |
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