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Missing markets and crop diversity: evidence from Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2005

M. ERIC VAN DUSEN  and
J. EDWARD TAYLOR
M. ERIC VAN DUSEN
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310, USA. Email: ericvd@are.Berkeley.edu
J. EDWARD TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, USA. Email: jetaylor@ucdavis.edu
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Abstract

Recent micro-economic studies of in situ conservation of crop diversity focus on competition between modern and traditional varieties of major food crops. Our paper offers a different, crop system, approach and a limited-dependent variable econometric technique to model in situ conservation of both intra- and infra-species crop diversity in a context of heterogeneous ecological and market environments, using unique household-farm data from Mexico. Our findings reject separability and indicate that market integration significantly reduces crop diversity. They underline the importance of studying diversity in the context of larger cropping systems and economic environments.

Type
Research Article
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 513 - 531
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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