Agrodiversity : learning from farmers across the world / edited by Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, and Muriel Brookfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brookfield, H. C.

Parsons, Helen.

Brookfield, Muriel.

Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agrobiodiversity.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 343 p. : ill. (some col.), maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press : UNEP : GEF, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Guin'e, 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.

Contents:

Intro

Agrodiversity: Learning from farmers across the world

Contents

List of tables and figures

List of acronyms

List of colour plates

Preface

Foreword: Mainstreaming PLEC's vision and upscaling PLEC's goals

Introduction

1 The evolution of PLEC's work, 1992-2002

2 How PLEC worked towards its objectives

3 Brazil (Amazonia)

4 Ghana

5 Guinée

6 Uganda

7 Kenya

8 Tanzania

9 China

10 Papua New Guinea

11 Peru

12 Mexico

13 Jamaica

14 Thailand

15 Findings from the PLEC project

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Some of the finds of the international project Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-332) and index.

ISBN:

92-808-7050-5

0-585-48561-5

OCLC:

53964305