Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes Volume 1

by Karl S. Zimmerer

Two of the world's most pressing needs--biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World--are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as is widely believed. He uses the lengthy history of small-scale farming by Indians in Peru, including contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520203038
• ISBN13: 9780520203037
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"