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Participatory landrace selection for on-farm conservation: an example from the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico by Bellon, Mauricio R., Smale, Melinda, Aguirre, Alfonso, Taba, Suketoshi, Aragón, Flavio, Díaz, Jaime

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Collective action for the conservation of on-farm genetic diversity in a center of crop diversity: an assessment of the role of traditional farmers’ networks by Badstue, Lone Bech, Bellon, Mauricio R., Berthaud, Julien, Ramírez, Alejandro, Flores, Dagoberto, Juárez, Xóchitl, Ramírez, Fabiola

“…It focused on the local institutions that ensure the supply of seed of diverse maize landraces to small-scale farmers in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. The key hypothesis was that the medium-to-long-term supply of a diverse set of varieties to any individual small-scale maize farmer depends on an agreement among a group of farmers to manage and supply the seed of these landraces to each other, if the need arises, and that this constitutes a form of collective action. …”
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