ISBN:
9780231102339
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (371 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation
Parallel Title:
Print version Exploring Agrodiversity
DDC:
306.3/49
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward conserving resources, especially soil. They have shown considerable resilience in the face of major onslaughts against their way of life by outsiders and government.Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, this book provides in-depth analysis of agricultural diversity and ex
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction; Introducing an Exploration; The Plan of the Book; Acknowledgments; PART 1 Presenting Agrodiversity; 1. Presenting Diversity by Example: Mintima and Bayninan; Mintima, Chimbu, Papua New Guinea; Bayninan, Ifugao, Philippines; Comment: Dimensions of Diversity; 2. Diversity, Stress, and Opportunity; Three Contrasted Examples; Threats to Crop Biodiversity: Paucartambo, Peru; A People Resettled Again and Again: The Zande of the Southern Sudan; The City in the Village: Four Villages Around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Comment Arising from the First Two Chapters
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Defining, Describing, and Writing About AgrodiversitySummarizing the Elements of Agrodiversity; Defining Agrodiversity; Describing and Classifying Agrodiversity; Following What Farmers Do; Analyzing and Writing About Agrodiversity; Themes for a Structured Argument; Two Cautions; The Way Forward; 4. Learning About the History of Agrodiversity; Two Very Relevant Questions; Selection of Favored Sites; Diversity in Early Management: Evidence from the Ground Surface; Evidence from Within the Soil; Toward Answers to the Questions; 5. Understanding Soils and Soil-Plant Dynamics; Introducing Soils
Description / Table of Contents:
Soil Taxonomy and Its ProblemsSoil-Forming Processes; Introducing Nutrients and Soil-Plant Relationships; The Human Factor; PART II Diversity Within Land Rotational Systems; 6. Analyzing Shifting Cultivation; Introducing Part II; Farming in the Forests of Borneo; Borneo in Perspective; The Forces of Change; 7. Alternative Ways to Farm Parimonious Soils; Citemene and Fundikila: Northeastern Zambia; Farming Systems Across Space and Through Time; Some Concluding Remarks About Work on Shifting Cultivation; 8. Managing Plants in the Fallow and the Forest; Introducing the Management of Plants
Description / Table of Contents:
Managing the Successional Forest in Latin AmericaManaged Successional Fallows in Amazonia and Southeast Asia; Complex Multistory Agroforests in Southeast Asia; What Is Natural and What Is Human-Made?; Using Plants and Soil in Conjunction; Conclusion; 9. Coping with Problems: Degraded Land, Slope Dynamics, and Flood; Degraded Land; Coping with Degradation in Southeastern Ghana; Managing the Dynamics of Steep Slopes; Managing Water; Discussion; PART III Paths of Transformation; 10. Who Has Driven Agricultural Change?; Introducing Part III; Bursts of Innovation and Incremental Change
Description / Table of Contents:
Two Completed ExperimentsAgricultural and Social Change in Japan, 1700-1950; Japan and Java; Conclusions; 11. Farmer-Driven Transformation in Modern Times; A Focus on Spontaneous Change; Management and Investment in a Sahel Village; Management and Migration Among the Kofyar of Northern Nigeria; Interference and Invention in Machakos, Kenya; Intensification, Revolution, and Agrarian Transformation: A Review; 12. The Green Revolution; Science and Public Policy as the Drivers of Change; North and South India; Farmers and the State in Java; Back to Diversity; Conclusions
Description / Table of Contents:
PART IV The Future of Agrodiversity
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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