Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, analysing and using agricultural diversity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853394939 ISBN 13: 9781853394935

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) has used the traditional skills of smallholder farmers - for cultivating their crops, managing the soil, water and vegetation and maintaining their livelihoods in difficult circumstances - to produce this book. Arguably, these farmers have conserved and even created more biological diversity and more economically important species than all protected areas combined. The book draws on the experience of demonstration sites that are the farmers' own enterprises, combining superior production along with enhancement of biological diversity. It is based on work in 12 countries with more than 200 collaborating scientists and about 2500 collaborating farmers, showing how its authors perceive and quantitatively analyse agrodiversity, and how they work together with farmers. This book will be of interest to all concerned with sustainable development, global change issues and participatory approaches to conservation with rural people. Published in collaboration with the United Nations University.

About this title

About the Author

Prof. Harold Brookfield has been Principal Scientific Coordinator of PLEC from 1992 to 2002, and is a Visiting Fellow in at the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200. Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853394939
• ISBN 13: 9781853394935
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Brookfield Harold