Farmers' Bounty : Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World

by Stephen B. Brush

ISBN13:
9780300100495
ISBN10:
0300100493
Format: Trade Book
Copyright: 2004-06-10
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Author Biography

Stephen B. Brush is professor, faculty of agricultural and environmental science, department of human and community development, University of California, Davis.

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Encountering Crop Diversity

(18)

A Naturalist's View of Crop Diversity

(27)

The Measure of Crop Diversity

(24)

Crop and Society in Centers of Diversity

(28)

The Ethnoecology of Crop Diversity in Andean Potato Agriculture

(29)

The Farmer's Place in Crop Evolution: Selection and Management

127

(26)

Genetic Erosion of Crop Populations in Centers of Diversity: A Revision

153

(22)

The Ecology of Crop Diversity

175

(19)

Maintaining Crop Diversity On-Farm and Off

194

(25)

Rights over Genetic Resources and the Demise of the Biological Commons

219

(37)

Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World

256

(31)

Bibliography

287

(32)

Index

319

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