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Achieving Desirable Levels of Crop Diversity in Farmers’ Fields: Factors Affecting the Production and Use of Commercial Seed

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Farmers Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat Maize and Rice

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Based on theoretical considerations alone, it may soon be possible to determine the level of crop diversity that could be considered socially optimal for a particular geographical area. A productivity-based definition of the social optimum might be the level of diversity that maximizes expected aggregate productivity across a specified region, subject to a minimum acceptable level of protection against catastrophic crop losses from pests and/or diseases. A conservation-based definition would reflect other criteria, such as allelic diversity in a reference region.

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Morris, M.L., Heisey, P.W. (1998). Achieving Desirable Levels of Crop Diversity in Farmers’ Fields: Factors Affecting the Production and Use of Commercial Seed. In: Smale, M. (eds) Farmers Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat Maize and Rice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0011-0_14

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