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Assessing the effectiveness of projects supporting on-farm conservation of native crops: evidence from the high Andes of South America

This paper presents an approach for assessing the effectiveness of projects aimed at creating incentives for smallholder farmers to continue maintaining crop diversity under evolution on their farms in relevant centers of genetic diversity—a process known as on-farm conservation. It is applied to five projects involving native crops in the High Andes of South America. Results show evidence that projects have been effective at supporting farmers to maintain crop diversity on-farm while generating positive livelihood outcomes. Implications and challenges of both the approach and the results for sustainable use and conservation of crop biodiversity are discussed.
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectCrop diversity
PublisherWorld Development
Publication year2015
RegionsLatin America and the Caribbean
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0305750X15000157?token=6336E1D7D90B69C94AE2520435945F9A2F06BC01140F5456A6F3FF371405B1CF2FFFC1598005904BB53DE926A5191866
KeywordsRecognition of the role of farmers; Agricultural biodiversity; Value chain
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