Agrodiversity: Learning from Farmers Across the World - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9280810871 ISBN 13 : 9789280810875

Editeur : Brookings Institution, 2003

Synopsis

Through generations of innovation and experiment, smallholder farms (cultivated pieces of land smaller than 50 acres) have nurtured a rich diversity of both wild and domestic plants and animals. While most academic literature emphasizes the accelerated loss of biodiversity, this book describes how large numbers of smallholder farmers are conserving biodiversity in their farmland and surrounds. Based on the fieldwork of the United Nations University Project on People, Land Management, and Environmental Change (PLEC), the book observes how farmers use their knowledge and skills to manage diversity and to manage their resources conservatively and profitably. The book highlights positive examples of resource management in Brazil, China, Ghana, Guinée, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Thailand, Tanzania, Uganda, Britain, the United States, Japan, and Australia. These examples demonstrate how ""agrodiversity"" practices can be used to reverse loss of biodiversity, control land degradation, and improve small farmers' livelihoods, and how they could be successfully applied to other situations.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harold Brookfield, formerly Principal Scientific Coordinator of the United Nations University Project on People, Land Management, and Environmental Change (PLEC), is now Senior Adviser. He is Professor-emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Helen Parsons , formerly Research Assistant to PLEC, is now joint editor (with Harold Brookfield) of the scientific-information listserv (PLECserv) and of the PLEC NEws and Views. She is also a smallholder farmer. Muriel Brookfield was formerly the principal editor of PLEC News and Views. She is now engaged in ornithological and environmental research.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brookings Institution
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9280810871
• ISBN 13: 9789280810875
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Brookfield Harold, Brookfield Muriel, Parsons Helen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible