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Collective action in plant genetic resources management: gendered rules of reputation, trust and reciprocity in Kerala, India
Padmanabhan, Martina Aruna - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources. Agrobiodiversity at the community level is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113250
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Understanding the links between agriculture and health:
Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
Sophie Ochola; 12. Agrobiodiversity, Nutrition, and Health / Timothy Johns, Ifeyironwa Francisca Smith, and Pablo B …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996502
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Combining revealed and stated preference methods to assess the private value of agrobiodiversity in Hungarian home gardens:
Birol, Ekin; Kontoleon, Andreas; Smale, Melinda - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
advances in agriculture. In this paper, we estimate the private value to farmers of agrobiodiversity in home gardens. Building … Hungary. Combining approaches leads to a more efficient and robust estimation of the private value of agrobiodiversity in home … that support agrobiodiversity maintenance, at least public cost." Authors' abstract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996681
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Overview: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Hawkes, Corinna; Ruel, Marie T. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
"Good health and productive agriculture are both essential in the fight against poverty. In a rapidly changing world, agriculture faces many challenges, both old (natural resource constraints, extreme weather conditions, and agricultural pests) and new (globalization, environmental degradation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004996899
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Agrobiodiversity, nutrition, and health: understanding the links between agriculture and health
Johns, Timothy; Smith, Ifeyironwa Francisca; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006
biodiversity is agrobiodiversity—that is, the cultivated plants and animals that form the raw material of agriculture, the wild … pollinators and soil biota... Agrobiodiversity used and conserved in a livelihood context can directly contribute to nutrition …, health, and income generation... Efforts to encourage farmers to grow a greater range of agrobiodiversity have had success …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997008
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Collective action and marketing of underutilized plant species: The case of minor millets in Kolli Hills, Tamil Nadu, India
Gruere, Guillaume P.; Nagarajan, Latha; King, E.D.I. Oliver - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007
of agrobiodiversity." authors' abstract …
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