Genes in the field: on-farm conservation of crop diversity

Foreword / Cary Fowler, Geoffrey C. Hawtin and Toby Hodgkin

Sect. I. Introduction and overview

Ch. 1. issues of in situ conservation of crop genetic resources / Stephen B. Brush

Sect. II. Population biology and social science

Ch. 2. genetic structure of crop landraces and the challenge to conserve them in situ on farms / Anthony H. D. Brown

Sect. III. Case studies

Ch. 3. Barley landraces from the Fertile Crescent: a lesson for plant breeders / Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando

Ch. 4. barleys of Ethiopia / Zemede Asfaw

Ch. 5. Traditional management of seed and genetic diversity: what is a landrace? / Dominique Louette

Ch. 6. Keeping diversity alive: an Ethiopian perspective / Melaku Worede, Tesfaye Tesemma and Regassa Feyissa

Sect. IV. Policy and institutional issues

Ch. 7. Optimal genetic resource conservation: in situ and ex situ / Timothy Swanson and Timo Goeschl

Ch. 8. Cultures of the Seed in the Peruvian Andes / Tirso A. Gonzales

Ch. 9. On-farm conservation of crop diversity: policy and institutional lessons from Zimbabwe / Elizabeth Cromwell and Saskia van Oosterhout

Ch. 10. In situ conservation and intellectual property rights / Carlos M. Correa

Ch. 11. Farmer decision making and genetic diversity: linking multidisciplinary research to implementation on-farm / Devra Jarvis and Toby Hodgkin.