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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Issues, cases, and methods in biodiversity conservation.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Introducing an Exploration; The Plan of the Book; Acknowledgments; PART 1 Presenting Agrodiversity; 1. Presenting Diversity by Example: Mintima and Bayninan; Mintima, Chimbu, Papua New Guinea; Bayninan, Ifugao, Philippines; Comment: Dimensions of Diversity; 2. Diversity, Stress, and Opportunity; Three Contrasted Examples; Threats to Crop Biodiversity: Paucartambo, Peru; A People Resettled Again and Again: The Zande of the Southern Sudan; The City in the Village: Four Villages Around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Comment Arising from the First Two Chapters.
- 3. Defining, Describing, and Writing About AgrodiversitySummarizing the Elements of Agrodiversity; Defining Agrodiversity; Describing and Classifying Agrodiversity; Following What Farmers Do; Analyzing and Writing About Agrodiversity; Themes for a Structured Argument; Two Cautions; The Way Forward; 4. Learning About the History of Agrodiversity; Two Very Relevant Questions; Selection of Favored Sites; Diversity in Early Management: Evidence from the Ground Surface; Evidence from Within the Soil; Toward Answers to the Questions; 5. Understanding Soils and Soil-Plant Dynamics; Introducing Soils.
- Soil Taxonomy and Its ProblemsSoil-Forming Processes; Introducing Nutrients and Soil-Plant Relationships; The Human Factor; PART II Diversity Within Land Rotational Systems; 6. Analyzing Shifting Cultivation; Introducing Part II; Farming in the Forests of Borneo; Borneo in Perspective; The Forces of Change; 7. Alternative Ways to Farm Parimonious Soils; Citemene and Fundikila: Northeastern Zambia; Farming Systems Across Space and Through Time; Some Concluding Remarks About Work on Shifting Cultivation; 8. Managing Plants in the Fallow and the Forest; Introducing the Management of Plants.
- Managing the Successional Forest in Latin AmericaManaged Successional Fallows in Amazonia and Southeast Asia; Complex Multistory Agroforests in Southeast Asia; What Is Natural and What Is Human-Made?; Using Plants and Soil in Conjunction; Conclusion; 9. Coping with Problems: Degraded Land, Slope Dynamics, and Flood; Degraded Land; Coping with Degradation in Southeastern Ghana; Managing the Dynamics of Steep Slopes; Managing Water; Discussion; PART III Paths of Transformation; 10. Who Has Driven Agricultural Change?; Introducing Part III; Bursts of Innovation and Incremental Change.
- Two Completed ExperimentsAgricultural and Social Change in Japan, 1700-1950; Japan and Java; Conclusions; 11. Farmer-Driven Transformation in Modern Times; A Focus on Spontaneous Change; Management and Investment in a Sahel Village; Management and Migration Among the Kofyar of Northern Nigeria; Interference and Invention in Machakos, Kenya; Intensification, Revolution, and Agrarian Transformation: A Review; 12. The Green Revolution; Science and Public Policy as the Drivers of Change; North and South India; Farmers and the State in Java; Back to Diversity; Conclusions.