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Publisher : International Potato Center
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book The Dynamics of Andean Potato Agriculture written by and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen B. Brush
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Total Pages : 27 pages
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Download or read book The Dynamics of Andean Potato Agriculture written by Stephen B. Brush and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Graves
Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 : 9789290602057
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Potato Treasure of the Andes written by Christine Graves and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl S. Zimmerer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549697
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Agrobiodiversity written by Karl S. Zimmerer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market forces to affect agriculture and food production systems on local, national, and global scales. The increasing simplification of food systems, the continuing decline of plant species, and the ongoing spread of pests and disease threaten biodiversity in agriculture as well as the sustainability of food resources. Complicating the situation further, the multiple systems involved—cultural, economic, environmental, institutional, and technological—are driven by human decision making, which is inevitably informed by diverse knowledge systems. The interactions and linkages that emerge necessitate an integrated assessment if we are to make progress toward sustainable agriculture and food systems. This volume in the Strüngmann Forum Reports series offers insights into the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and sustainability and proposes an integrative framework to guide future research, scholarship, policy, and practice. The contributors offer perspectives from a range of disciplines, including plant and biological sciences, food systems and nutrition, ecology, economics, plant and animal breeding, anthropology, political science, geography, law, and sociology. Topics covered include evolutionary ecology, food and human health, the governance of agrobiodiversity, and the interactions between agrobiodiversity and climate and demographic change.
Author : Craig Randal Linder
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Diversity Within Traditional Potato Agriculture in the Peruvian Andes and Its Relevance to Crop Evolution written by Craig Randal Linder and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heath J. Carney
Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book Diversity, distribution and peasant selection of indigenous potato varieties in the Mantaro Valley, Peru: a biocultural evolutionary process. written by Heath J. Carney and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1980 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enrique Mayer
Publisher : International Potato Center
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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Land-use in the Andes written by Enrique Mayer and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1979 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Rowman Altamira
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Total Pages : 649 pages
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Download or read book written by and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Edington
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319624911
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Environmental Knowledge written by John Edington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge. It shows that in some spheres, including agriculture, house design, fuel and water manipulation, the high reputation of local observers is well deserved and often sufficiently insightful to warrant wider imitation. However it also reveals that in certain matters, notably some aspects of health care and wild-species population management, local knowledge systems are conspicuously unsound. Not all the difficulties are of the communities own making, some stem from external factors outside their control. However in either case, remedial measures can be suggested and this book describes, especially for the benefit of practitioners, what steps might be taken in rural communities to improve the quality of life. The possibility of useful transfers of information from local settings to Western ones is not ignored and forms the subject of the book’s final chapter.
Author : John H. Bodley
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759118655
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Cultural Anthropology written by John H. Bodley and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-04-16 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. Cultural materials are presented in integrated ethnographic case studies organized by cultural and geographic areas to show how ideological, social organization, and material features fit together in specific sociocultural systems. Bodley explicitly seeks a balance between ecological-materialist and cultural-ideological explanations of sociocultural systems, while stressing the importance of individual power-seeking and human agency. Part One examines domestic-scale, autonomous tribal cultures. Part Two presents politically organized, class-based civilizations and ancient empires in the imperial world. Part Three surveys global, industrial, market-based civilizations in the contemporary commercial world. Cultural Anthropology uniquely challenges students to consider the big questions about the nature of cultural systems.
Author : Miguel A Altieri
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429975090
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Agroecology written by Miguel A Altieri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book incorporates new insights and concepts in the hope of helping guide agricultural students, researchers, and practitioners to a deeper understanding of the ecology of agricultural systems that will open the doors to new management options with the objectives of sustainable agriculture.
Author : Timothy Johns
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654591X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Human Diet and Medicine written by Timothy Johns and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1990-09-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have always been attracted to foods rich in calories, fat, and protein; yet the biblical admonition that meat be eaten “with bitter herbs” suggests that unpalatable plants play an important role in our diet. So-called primitive peoples show a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of how their bodies interact with plant chemicals, which may allow us to rediscover the origins of diet by retracing the paths of biology and culture. The domestication of the potato serves as the focus of Timothy Johns’s interdisciplinary study, which forges a bold synthesis of ethnobotany and chemical ecology. The Aymara of highland Bolivia have long used varieties of potato containing potentially toxic levels of glycoalkaloids, and Johns proposes that such plants can be eaten without harm owing to human genetic modification and cultural manipulation. Drawing on additional fieldwork in Africa, he considers the evolution of the human use of plants, the ways in which humans obtain foods from among the myriad poisonous and unpalatable plants in the environment, and the consequences of this history for understanding the basis of the human diet. A natural corollary to his investigation is the origin of medicine, since the properties of plants that make them unpalatable and toxic are the same properties that make them useful pharmacologically. As our species has adapted to the use of plants, plants have become an essential part of our internal ecology. Recovering the ancient wisdom regarding our interaction with the environment preserves a fundamental part of our human heritage. Originally published in hardcover as With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat It: Chemical Ecology and the Origins of Human Diet and Medicine
Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806131801
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Ethnobotany written by Paul E. Minnis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture). Ethnobotany: A Reader is intended for use as a textbook in upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in economic botany, ethnobotany, and human ecology. The book brings together for the first time previously published journal articles that provide diverse perspectives on a wide variety of topics in ethnobotany. Contributors include: Janis B. Alcorn, M. Kat Anderson, Stephen B. Brush, Robert A. Bye, George F. Estabrook, David H. French, Eugene S. Hunn, Charles F. Hutchinson, Eric Mellink, Paul E. Minnis, Brian Morris, Gary P. Nabhan, Amadeo M. Rea, Karen L. Reichhardt, Jan Timbrook, Nancy J. Turner, and Robert A. Voeks.
Author : Peter D. Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429712537
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Lands At Risk In The Third World written by Peter D. Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents case studies highlighting social, economic, political, and biological dimensions of environmental degradation in the Third World. It uses local data to examine, test, and refine larger explanatory models and theories. .
Author : Cecile E. H. Ducrot
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Pesticide Externalities in Andean Potato Production written by Cecile E. H. Ducrot and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles C. Crissman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture written by Charles C. Crissman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margery L. Oldfield
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Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Value of Conserving Genetic Resources written by Margery L. Oldfield and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
