Crop Valuation and Farmer Response to Change: Implications for In Situ Conservation of Maize in Mexico

Valuing Crop Biodiversity: On-Farm Genetic Resources and Economic Change

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 17-31

  Dyer, G A ^a  

^a EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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