Farmers' bounty : locating crop diversity in the contemporary world /

Main Author: Brush, Stephen B., 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004.
Series:Yale agrarian studies series
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187740
Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Encountering Crop Diversity""; ""2. A Naturalistâ€?s View of Crop Diversity""; ""3. The Measure of Crop Diversity""; ""4. Crop and Society in Centers of Diversity""; ""5. The Ethnoecology of Crop Diversity inAndean Potato Agriculture""; ""6. The Farmerâ€?s Place in Crop Evolution:Selection and Management""; ""7. Genetic Erosion of Crop Populations in Centers of Diversity:A Revision""; ""8. The Ecology of Crop Diversity""; ""9. Maintaining Crop Diversity On-Farm and Off""
  • ""10. Rights over Genetic Resources and the Demise ofthe Biological Commons""""11. Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World ""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""