Changing fortunes : biodiversity and peasant livelihood in the Peruvian Andes /
This title provides a study of the relationship between crop plant biodiversity, peasant behaviour, and the larger society, and dispells some long held assertions about Andean farming.
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1996.
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| Serie: | California studies in critical human geography ;
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2711649 |
Sommario:
- Ch. 1. Fields of plenty and want
- ch. 2. The great historical arch of Andean biodiversity
- ch. 3. Transitions in farm nature and society, 1969-1990
- ch. 4. Innovation and the spaces of biodiversity
- ch. 5. Loss and conservation of the diverse crops
- ch. 6. Diversity's sum: geography, ecology-economy, and culture
- ch. 7. The vicissitudes of biodiversity's fortune.