Book chapters

From theory to practice: a decade of co-management of pasture and other natural resources in Mongolia

Elinor Ostrom’s work has been the principal inspiration for a number of research and development initiatives in Mongolia aimed at designing, testing...

Authors:: Ykhanbai, H.; Vernooy, R.
Publication Year:: 2014

Climate change and on-farm conservation of crop landraces in centres of diversity

In chapter 8, ‘Climate change and on-farm conservation of crop landraces in centres of diversity', Bioversity scientists Mauricio Bellon and Jacob van...

Authors:: Bellon, M.R.; van Etten, J.
Publication Year:: 2013

Estado de la conservacion ex situ de los recursos geneticos de Quinua

IN: Bazile, D. et al. (eds.), “Estado del arte de la quinua en el mundo en 2013”

Authors:: Rojas, W.; Pinto, M.; Alanoca, C.; Gomez Pando Pedro Leon-Lobos, L.G.; Alercia, A.; Diulgheroff, S.; Padulosi, S.; Bazile, D.
Publication Year:: 2014

Los pagos voluntarios para la conservación de la diversidad de la quinua: explorando el papel de los pagos por servicios ambientales en los Andes

IN: Bazile, D. et al. (eds.), “Estado del arte de la quinua en el mundo en 2013”

Authors:: Drucker, A.G.; Pascual, U.; Narloch, U,; Midler, E.; Soto, J.L.; Pinto, M.; Valdivia, E.; Rojas, W.
Publication Year:: 2014

Mitochondrial genome and plant taxonomy

The lability in size, structure, and sequence content of mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) across plant species has sharply limited its use in taxonomic...

Authors:: Duminil, J.
Publication Year:: 2014

Banana genotype composition along the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo border: a gene pool mix for plantain and highland bananas

Landraces contain many genotypes, which makes them a good source of genes for crop improvement and hence provide an incentive to conserve them. Banana...