Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analysing and Using Agricultural Diversity

by Harold C. Brookfield

The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) has used the traditional skills of smallholder farmers - for cultivating their crops, managing the soil, water and vegetation and maintaining their livelihoods in difficult circumstances - to produce this book. Arguably, these farmers have conserved and even created more biological diversity and more economically important species than all protected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853394939
• ISBN13: 9781853394935
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: ITDG Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 8.8"