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Agrodiversity:
Learning from farmers Across the World
Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, and Muriel Brookfield |
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Description
Through generations of innovation and experiment, smallholder farmers have nurtured a rich diversity of plants and animals, both wild and domesticated. Most academic literature emphasizes the accelerated loss of biodiversity, but this book describes how large numbers of smallholder farmers are conserving biodiversity in their farmland and surrounds. It is based on the fieldwork of the United Nations University Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC), which has observed how farmers use their knowledge and skills to manage diversity and also to manage their resources conservatively and profitably. [READ MORE...]
| "This book is an optimistic step forward for it reaffirms the faith in eco-friendly farming practiced by thousands of small farmers all over the world". - Terra Green. http://www.teriin.org/terragreen/issue54/reviews.htm |
Harold Brookfield, formerly Principal Scientific Coordinator of PLEC, is now Senior Adviser. He is Professor-emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Helen Parsons, formerly Research Assistant to PLEC, is now joint editor (with Harold Brookfield) of the scientific-information listserv (PLECserv) and of PLEC News and Views. She is also a smallholder farmer. Muriel Brookfield was formerly the principal editor of PLEC News and Views. She is now engaged in ornithological and environmental research.
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