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Exploring agrodiversity
- Title
- Exploring agrodiversity / Harold Brookfield.
- Author
- Brookfield, H. C.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2001], ©2001.
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- Description
- xix, 348 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Issues, cases, and methods in biodiversity conservation
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives in biological diversity series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-323) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Presenting Agrodiversity. Ch. 1. Presenting Diversity by Example: Mintima and Bayninan. Ch. 2. Diversity, Stress, and Opportunity. Ch. 3. Defining, Describing, and Writing About Agrodiversity. Ch. 4. Learning About the History of Agrodiversity. Ch. 5. Understanding Soils and Soil-Plant Dynamics -- Pt. II. Diversity Within Land Rotational Systems. Ch. 6. Analyzing Shifting Cultivation. Ch. 7. Alternative Ways to Farm Parsimonious Soils. Ch. 8. Managing Plants in the Fallow and the Forest. Ch. 9. Coping with Problems: Degraded Land, Slope Dynamics, and Flood -- Pt. III. Paths of Transformation. Ch. 10. Who Has Driven Agricultural Change? Ch. 11. Farmer-Driven Transformation in Modern Times. Ch. 12. The Green Revolution -- Pt. IV. The Future of Agrodiversity. Ch. 13. Recent Trends in Agriculture. Ch. 14. Science, Farmers, and Politics. Epilogue: Looking at the Future.
- ISBN
- 0231102321 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 023110233X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00045175
- OCLC
- ocm44883518
- SCSB-4159638
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries