Smale, M. Person

selected publications

• article

  • Viewpoint: COVID-19 and seed security response now and beyond.  Food Policy.  97:102000. 2020
  • Dynamic conservation of genetic resources: Rematriation of the maize landrace Jala.  Food Security.  12:1-14. 2020
  • Transferring diversity of goat grass to farmers’ fields through the development of synthetic hexaploid wheat.  Food Security.  12:1-1033. 2020
  • The contribution of the International Rice Genebank to varietal improvement and crop productivity in Eastern India.  Food Security.  12:1-15. 2020
  • Andean potato diversity conserved in the International Potato Center genebank helps develop agriculture in Uganda: the example of the variety ‘Victoria’.  Food Security.  12:959-973. 2020
  • The contribution of the CIAT genebank to the development of iron-biofortified bean varieties and well-being of farm households in Rwanda.  Food Security.  12:975-991. 2020
  • Use and benefits of tree germplasm from the World Agroforestry genebank for smallholder farmers in Kenya.  Food Security.  12:993-1003. 2020
  • Factors influencing the productivity and efficiency of wheat farmers in Punjab, Pakistan.  JOURNAL OF AGRIBUSINESS IN DEVELOPING AND EMERGING ECONOMIES.  7:82-98. 2017
  • A Question of Integrity: Variants of Bt Cotton, Pesticides and Productivity in Pakistan.  Journal of Agricultural Economics.  68:366-385. 2017
  • The potential economic impact of Guinea-race sorghum hybrids inMali: A comparison of research and development paradigms 2017
  • Varietal integrity, damage abatement, and productivity: evidence from the cultivation of Bt cotton in Pakistan. 2016
  • Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm: Principles and Applications in Research Practices 2016
  • Dynamics of variety change on wheat farms in Pakistan: A duration analysis.  Food Policy.  59:24-33. 2016
  • Conclusions. Traditional varieties and agricultural productivity 2016
  • Diversity and its evolution in crop populations 2016
  • Diversity in, and adaptation to, adverse environments on-farm 2016
  • Plant genetic resources, conservation,and politics: a history of international and national developments supporting the conservation and use of crop diversity 2016
  • Strategies for collaboration and intervention 2016
  • The origins of agriculture, crop domestication, and centers of diversity 2016
  • Agricultural marketing by smallholders in Kenya: A comparison of maize, kale and dairy.  Food Policy.  52:22-32. 2015
  • How does adopting hybrid maize affect dietary diversity on family farms? Micro-evidence from Zambia.  Food Policy.  52:44-53. 2015
  • The Changing Structure of the Maize Seed Industry in Zambia: Prospects for Orange Maize.  Agribusiness.  31:132-146. 2015
  • Smallholder Demand for Maize Hybrids in Zambia: How Far do Seed Subsidies Reach?.  Journal of Agricultural Economics.  65:349-367. 2014
  • Benefits to Producers and Society 2014
  • Impact on Biodiversity 2014
  • Crops that feed the world 10. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by wheat in global food security.  Food Security.  5:291-317. 2013
  • The potential for wheat production in Africa: analysis of biophysical suitability and economic profitability 2013
  • A Case of Resistance: Herbicide-tolerant Soybeans in Bolivia 2012
  • Unweaving the threads : The experiences of female farmers with biotech cotton in Colombia 2012
  • Socioeconomic and Agroecological Determinants of Conserving Diversity On-farm: The Case of Rice Genetic Resources in Nepal.  Nepal Agricultural Research Journal.  6:89-98. 2010
  • Farmer Preferences for Bt Maize, Seed Information and Credit in the Philippines 2010
  • Access to minor millet genetic resources in rural market towns of Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu, India 2010
  • Project Methodology: Using Markets to promote the sustainable utilization of crop genetic resources 2010
  • Farmer preferences for milpa diversity and genetically modified maize in Mexico: a latent class approach.  Environment and Development Economics.  14:521-540. 2009
  • Wheat breeding, productivity and slow variety change: evidence from the Punjab of India after the Green Revolution.  Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.  52:419-432. 2008
  • Policy and Institutional Factors and the Distribution of Economic Benefits and Risk from the Adoption of Insect Resistant (Bt) Cotton in West Africa 2008
  • Do we have an adequate global strategy for securing the biodiversity of major food crops 2008
  • Introduction: Agrobiodiversity for economic development: what do we know? 2008
  • Market participation and crop biodiversity in a developing economy: Bananas in Uganda 2008
  • Marketing underutilized plant species for the poor: A conceptual framework 2008
  • Bi-Modal Preferences for Bt Maize in the Philippines: A Latent Class Model 2008
  • The role of agricultural cooperatives in sustaining the wheat diversity and productivity: the case of southern Italy.  Environmental and Resource Economics.  39:161-174. 2008
  • Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda.  Journal of International Development.  20:35-52. 2008
  • The economic impact of transgenic crops in developing countries: a note on the methods.  International Journal of Biotechnology.  10:519-551. 2008
  • Farmer preferences for milpa diversity and genetically modified maize in Mexico: a latent class approach 2007
  • On farm conservation of rice biodiversity in Nepal: a simultaneous estimation approach.  Journal of Agricultural Economics.  58:242-259. 2007
  • Determinants of millet diversity at the household-farm and village-community levels in the drylands of India: the role of local seed systems.  Agricultural Economics.  36:157-167. 2007
  • Farmer management of production risk on degraded lands: the role of wheat variety diversity in the Tigray region, Ethiopia.  Agricultural Economics.  36:147-156. 2007
  • Bales and Balance: A Review of the Methods Used to Assess the Economic Impact of Bt Cotton on Farmers in Developing Economies 2007
  • Village seed systems and the biological diversity of millet crops in marginal environments of India.  Euphytica.  155:167-182. 2007
  • Agricultural development and the diversity of crop and livestock genetic resources: A review of the economics literature 2007
  • Biodiversity Economics: Assessing the private value of agro-biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens using the data enrichment method 2007
  • Conclusions and implications for research policy 2007
  • Transgenic technology: Pro-poor or pro-rich? 2007
  • A trait-based model of the potential demand for a genetically engineered food crop in a developing economy.  Agricultural Economics.  35:351-361. 2006
  • Using a Choice Experiment to Estimate Farmers’ Valuation of Agrobiodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms.  Environmental and Resource Economics.  34:439-469. 2006
  • Marketing Underutilized Plant Species for the Benefit of the Poor: A Conceptual Framework 2006
  • Demand for Genetic Resources and the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System.  Crop Science.  46:1021-1031. 2006
  • The Role of Home Gardens in Promoting Multi‐Functional Agriculture in Hungary.  EuroChoices.  4:14-21. 2006
  • A pluralistic economics methodology for analysing landrace conservation on farms: a case study of Hungarian home gardens.  International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.  4:213-232. 2006
  • Assessing the impact of crop genetic improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa: research context and highlights 2006
  • Biodiversity of bananas on farms in Uganda 2006
  • Local seed systems for millet crops in marginal environments of India: industry and policy perspectives.  Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture.  46:263-288. 2006
  • Predicting farmer demand for BT maize in Kenya 2006
  • Market-based incentives for conserving diversity on farms: the case of rice landraces in Central Tarai, Nepal.  Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution.  52:293-303. 2005
  • Managing Crop Biological Diversity on Farms 2005
  • On the role of agricultural institutions in sustaining wheat biodiversity: The case of cooperative in Southern Italy 2005
  • Valuation and sustainable management of crop and livestock biodiversity: a review of applied economics literature 2005
  • The economic determinants of cereal crop diversity on farms in the Ethiopian highlands.  Agricultural Economics.  31:197-208. 2004
  • Rights and Access to Plant Genetic Resources under India's New Law.  Development Policy Review.  22:423-442. 2004
  • Conserving Crop Genetic Resources on Smallholder Farms in Hungary: Institutional Analysis 2004
  • Agri-Environmental Policies in a Transition Economy: Using a Choice Experiment to Value Agricultural Biodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms 2004
  • Economic concepts for designing policies to conserve crop genetic resources on farms.  Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution.  51:121-135. 2004
  • Diagnostic research to enable adoption of transgenic crop varieties by smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.  African Journal of Biotechnology.  2:586-595. 2003
  • The economic costs and benefits of a participatory project to conserve maize landraces on farms in Oaxaca, Mexico⋆.  Agricultural Economics.  29:265-275. 2003
  • The economic impact of productivity maintenance research: breeding for leaf rust resistance in modern wheat.  Agricultural Economics.  29:253-263. 2003
  • Participatory landrace selection for on-farm conservation: an example from the central valleys of Oaxaca México.  Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution.  50:401-416. 2003
  • Determinants of spatial diversity in modern wheat: examples from Australia and China.  Agricultural Economics.  28:13-26. 2003
  • Introduction: a taxonomy of genebank value: December 2003, Brief 7 2003
  • Search strategies and the value of a large collection 2003
  • The economic costs and benefits of a participatory project to conserve maize landraces on farms in Oaxaca, Mexico.  Agricultural Economics.  29:265-275. 2003
  • The marginal value of an accession 2003
  • Dimensions of Diversity in Modern Spring Bread Wheat in Developing Countries from 1965.  Crop Science.  42:1766-1779. 2002
  • The Demand for Crop Genetic Resources: International Use of the US National Plant Germplasm System.  World Development.  30:1639-1655. 2002
  • Maize Diversity, Variety Attributes, and Farmers' Choices in Southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico.  Economic Development and Cultural Change.  50:201-225. 2001
  • Unequal Exchange? Recent Transfers of Agricultural Resources and their Implications for Developing Countries.  Development Policy Review.  19:181-204. 2001
  • Searching an Ex Situ Collection of Wheat Genetic Resources.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  82:812-827. 2000
  • Maize Technology Development And Transfer: A GIS Application For Research Planning In Kenya: Rashid Hassan (Ed.); CAB International, Wallingford, UK. Published in association with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), 1998, 230 pp., US$ 85.00 cloth, ISBN 0851-992-870.  Agricultural Economics.  23:89-91. 2000
  • Farmers' seed selection practices and traditional maize varieties in Cuzalapa, Mexico.  Euphytica.  113:25-41. 2000
  • A regional analysis of maize biological diversity in southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico.  Economic Botany.  54:60-72. 2000
  • Breeder demand for and utilisation of wheat genetic resources in Australia.  Plant Varieties and Seeds.  12:113-127. 1999
  • Estimating the Economic Impact of Breeding Nonspecific Resistance to Leaf Rust in Modern Bread Wheats..  Plant Disease.  82:1055-1061. 1998
  • Farmers' Use of Improved Seed Selection Practices in Mexican Maize: Evidence and Issues from the Sierra de Santa Marta.  World Development.  26:1625-1640. 1998
  • Institutional change and discontinuities in farmers' use of hybrid maize seed and fertilizer in Malawi: Findings from the 1996-97 CIMMYT/MoLD Survey 1998
  • The Green Revolution and Wheat Genetic Diversity: Some Unfounded Assumptions.  World Development.  25:1257-1269. 1997
  • Wheat rusts and the costs of genetic diversity in the Punjab of Pakistan.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  79:726-737. 1997
  • Farmers' use of improved seed selection practices in Mexican maize: Evidence and issues from the Sierra de Santa Marta 1997
  • Organization and performance of national maize seed industries: A new institutionalist perspective 1997
  • Wheat breeders' perspectives on genetic diversity and germplasm use: Findings from an international survey.  Plant Varieties and Seeds.  9:129-147. 1996
  • Indicators of wheat genetic diversity and germplasm use in the People's Republic of China 1996
  • Methodological issues in the economics of genetic diversity and plant breeding 1996
  • Understanding global trends in the use of wheat diversity and international flows of wheat genetic resources 1996
  • "Maize is life": Malawi's delayed green revolution.  World Development.  23:819-831. 1995
  • "Maize is life": Malawi's delayed green revolution 1995
  • MAIZE OF THE ANCESTORS AND MODERN VARIETIES - THE MICROECONOMICS OF HIGH-YIELDING VARIETY ADOPTION IN MALAWI.  Economic Development and Cultural Change.  43:351-368. 1995
  • Maize research in Malawi revisited: An emerging success story?.  Journal of International Development.  6:689-706. 1994
  • Gendered impacts of fertilizer subsidy removal programs in Malawi and Cameroon.  Agricultural Economics.  10:95-99. 1994
  • LAND ALLOCATION IN HYV ADOPTION MODELS - AN INVESTIGATION OF ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS.  American Journal of Agricultural Economics.  76:535-546. 1994
  • Land allocation in HYV adoption models: An investigation of alternative explanations 1994
  • Simultaneous estimation of seed-fertilizer adoption decisions: An application to hybrid maize in Malawi.  Technological Forecasting and Social Change.  43:353-368. 1993
  • Chimanga cha makolo, hybrids, and composites: farmers' adoption of maize technology in Malawi, 1989-90 1992
  • A Bayesian approach to explaining sequential adoption of components of a technological package 1991
  • A note on multi-stage sampling with list frames : the PARC/CIMMYT survey of wheat harvest technology 1987
  • Wheat harvest technology in Punjab's rice wheat zone : combines, laborers and the cost of harvest delay 1987

• conference paper

  • A question of integrity: Variants of Bt cotton, pesticides, and productivity in Pakistan 2016

• document

  • An Economic Assessment of Sorghum Improvement in Mali, Impact Assessment Report No. 2 2016
  • Crop genetic diversity in the field and on the farm: principles and applications in research practices 2016
  • Farm, community, and landscape: genetic diversity and selection pressures at different social, spatial, and temporal scales 2016
  • Who are the managers of diversity? Characterizing the social, cultural, and economic environments 2016
  • Biodiversity of maize on farms in Kenya 2006
  • Biosafety and biodiversity risks 2006
  • Crucial determinants of adoption: material systems for banana and maize 2006
  • Gauging potential based on current adoption of banana hybrids in Tanzania 2006
  • Predicting farmer demand for transgenic cooking bananas in Uganda 2006
  • Promising crop biotechnologies for smallholder farmers in East Africa: bananas and maize 2006
  • BioConserv: Economics literature on crop and livestock genetic resources: An annotated bibliography 2005
  • What is diversity worth to farmers? 2005
  • Biotechnology and genetic resource policies: What is a genebank worth? 2003
  • The demand for crop genetic resources from a national collection 2003
  • The demand for crop genetic resources from international collection 2003
  • The economic costs and benefits of participatory project to conserve maize landraces on farm in Oaxaca, Mexico 2003
  • The economics of conserving agricultural biodiversity on-farm 2001
  • A regional analysis of maize biological diversity in southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico 2000
  • A training guide for in-situ conservation on farm 2000
  • Dimensions of diversity in CIMMYT bread wheat from 1965 to 2000 2000
  • Identifying appropriate germplasm for participatory breeding: An example from the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico 2000
  • Farmer management of maize diversity in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico: CIMMYT INIFAP -- 1998 Baseline Socioeconomic Survey 1999
  • Using economics to explain spatial diversity in a wheat crop: Examples from Australia and China 1999
  • A conceptual framework for valuing on-farm genetic resources 1998
  • Estimating the economic impact of breeding nonspecific resistance to leaf rust in modern bread wheat 1998
  • Farmers' seed selection practices and maize variety characteristics in a traditionally-based Mexican community 1998
  • Relación entre varianza genética y diversidad genealógica en trigo 1997
  • Genetic diversity and maize seed management in a traditional Mexican community: Implications for in situ conservation of maize 1996
  • Maize technology in Malawi: A green revolution in the making? 1995
  • Chimanga cha makolo, hybrids, and composites: An analysis of farmers' adoption of maize technology in Malawi, 1989-91 1991