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Crop genetic diversity, productivity and stability of agroecosystems. A theoretical and empirical investigation

Di Falco, Salvatore and Perrings, Charles (2003) Crop genetic diversity, productivity and stability of agroecosystems. A theoretical and empirical investigation. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 50 (2). pp. 207-216. ISSN 0036-9292

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Identification Number: 10.1111/1467-9485.5002006

Abstract

This paper purports a model of farmers' crop choices in an uncertain environment. The model shows that profit maximizing farmers will choose a crop mix characterised by greater crop diversity if diversity is positively related to productivity and negatively correlated with production and income variability. An application using data from a Vavilov megadiversity spot, southern Italy, from 1970 up to 1993 is provided to test model hypotheses. It is found that interspecies crop genetic diversity is positively related to mean income and negatively related to the variance of income.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS...
Additional Information: © 2003 Scottish Economic Society
Divisions: Geography & Environment
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Date Deposited: 06 May 2011 16:07
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 21:42
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35970

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