This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development. As a new and rapidly expanding subfield at the interface of environmental/ecological, agricultural and development economics, the editors and contributors to this volume provide a thorough, structured and authoritative coverage of this field. Topics covered include the economic modelling of agrobiodiversity, policy and governance solutions for the conservation of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, contracts, markets and valuation.The authors include well-known and respected academics and researchers who have a real policy perspective into the role of agrobiodiversity and economic development. This book provides coherent and up to date coverage of the economics of in-situ agrobiodiversity conservation which is to a large extent currently absent. Though the material in the volume is primarily written for economists, its content and style are highly relevant and accessible to ecologists and conservation biologists, and to academics from other broad disciplines that are located within the areas of economics and ecology.
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1 Introduction: Agrobiodiversity for economic development: what do we know? by Andreas Kontoleon and Unai Pascual and Melinda Smale 1
Pt. I Policy perspectives 25
2 Managing plant genetic resources for sustainable use in food and agriculture: balancing the benefits in the field by Leslie Lipper and David Cooper 27
3 Do we have an adequate global strategy for securing the biodiversity of major food crops? by Melinda Smale and Peter Hazell and Toby Hodgkin and Cary Fowler 40
4 Do we need crop I and races for the future? Realizing the global option value in of situ conservation by Mauricio R. Bellon 51
5 Marketing underutilized plant species for the poor: a conceptual framework by Guillaume P. Gruere and Alessandra Giuliani and Melinda Smale 62
6 Non-market institutions for agrobiodiversity conservation by Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Pablo Eyzaguirre 82
7 Development, intensification and the conservation and sustainable use of farm animal genetic resources by Adam G. Drucker and Luis Carlos Rodriguez 92
Pt. II Multiple objectives, trade-offs and synergies between productivity and agrobiodiversity 111
8 Biodiversity conservation and productivity in intensive agricultural systems by Amani Omer and Unai Pascual and Noel Russell 113
9 Pricing agrobiodiversity: a stochastic approach to model environmental efficiency by Johannes Sauer 137
10 Diversity, productivity and resilience in agro-ecosystems: an example from cereal production in Southern Italy by Salvatore Di Falco and Jean-Paul Chavas 170
11 The role of crop genetic diversity in coping with drought: insights from eastern Ethiopia by Leslie Lipper and Romina Cavatassi and Jeffrey Hopkins 183
12 A trade-off analysis between rangeland health and income generation in southern Namibia by Stephanie Domptail and Alexander Popp and Ernst-August Nuppenau 204
13 Estimating the interactions of soil biota with agricultural practices by Sebastien Foudi 233
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