Farmers? Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary Worlddiv Biological diversity is as crucial in agriculture as it is in nature, and it is equally important to the economic health of both industrial and nonindustrial societies. This book offers a sweeping assessment of crop diversity and the potential for its preservation. Stephen B. Brush develops a framework for investigating biological diversity in agriculture that focuses on the knowledge and practice of farmers, and he shows how this human ecology perspective can be applied to three global issues that affect crop resources. |
Contents
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3 The Measure of Crop Diversity | 46 |
4 Crop and Society in Centers of Diversity | 70 |
5 The Ethnoecology of Crop Diversity inAndean Potato Agriculture | 98 |
Selection and Management | 127 |
A Revision | 153 |
8 The Ecology of Crop Diversity | 175 |
9 Maintaining Crop Diversity OnFarm and Off | 194 |
10 Rights over Genetic Resources and the Demise ofthe Biological Commons | 219 |
11 Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World | 256 |
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Other editions - View all
Farmers? Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World Stephen B. Brush Limited preview - 2008 |
Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World Stephen B. Brush No preview available - 2014 |
Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World Stephen B. Brush No preview available - 2004 |