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Exploring Agrodiversity /

Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward cons...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brookfield, Harold (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2001]
Colección:Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The Plan of the Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Presenting Agrodiversity
  • Chapter 1. Presenting Diversity by Example: Mintima and Bayninan
  • Chapter 2. Diversity, Stress, and Opportunity
  • Chapter 3. Defining, Describing, and Writing About Agrodiversity
  • Chapter 4. Learning About the History of Agrodiversity
  • Chapter 5. Understanding Soils and Soil-Plant Dynamics
  • Part II. Diversity Within Land Rotational Systems
  • Chapter 6. Analyzing Shifting Cultivation
  • Chapter 7. Alternative Ways to Farm Parsimonious Soils
  • Chapter 8. Managing Plants in the Fallow and the Forest
  • Chapter 9. Coping with Problems: Degraded Land, Slope Dynamics, and Flood
  • Part III. Paths of Transformation
  • Chapter 10. Who Has Driven Agricultural Change?
  • Chapter 11. Farmer-Driven Transformation in Modern Times
  • Chapter 12. The Green Revolution
  • Part IV. The Future of Agrodiversity
  • Chapter 13. Recent Trends in Agriculture
  • Chapter 14. Science, Farmers, and Politics
  • Epilogue: Looking at the Future
  • References
  • Index