Exploring Agrodiversity / / Harold Brookfield.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (608 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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