Determinants Of Cereal Diversity In Communities And On Household Farms Of The Northern Ethiopian Highlands

Download or read book Determinants of Cereal Diversity in Communities and on House-hold Farms of the Northern Ethiopian Highlands written by Samuel Benin and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity among species) and infra-specific diversity (diversity among varieties within a species) of cereal crops grown in communities and on individual farms in the northern Ethiopian highlands.