The economic costs and benefits of a participatory project to conserve maize landraces on farms in Oaxaca, Mexico

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 gro...

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Main Authors: Smale, Melinda, Bellon, Mauricio R., Aguirre Gómez, José Alfonso, Rosas, I. Manuel, Mendoza, Jaime, Solano, A. M., Martínez, R., Ramírez, Alejandro, Berthaud, Julien
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Wiley 2003
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157861

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