Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global Context

by Lawrence Busch, Douglas Hemken, Jubel Moraga-Rojel, et al.

Book Overview

For ages, farmers have domesticated plant varieties, while scientists have "made" nature through hybridization and other processes. This give and take--mediated through negotiations, persuasion, the marketplace, and even coercion--has resulted in what we call "nature" and has led to a homogenization of plant crops. Yet homogenization has led to new problems: genetic vulnerability, and the lack of systems to maintain plant germplasm of varieties no...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803212569
• ISBN13: 9780803212565
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"