Farmers' bounty [[electronic resource] ] : locating crop diversity in the contemporary world / / Stephen B. Brush |
Autore | Brush Stephen B. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 631.5/23 |
Collana | Yale agrarian studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Crops - Germplasm resources
Germplasm resources, Plant |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-72209-X
9786611722098 0-300-13014-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Encountering Crop Diversity -- 2. A Naturalist's View of Crop Diversity -- 3. The Measure of Crop Diversity -- 4. Crop and Society in Centers of Diversity -- 5. The Ethnoecology of Crop Diversity in Andean Potato Agriculture -- 6. The Farmer's Place in Crop Evolution: Selection and Management -- 7. Genetic Erosion of Crop Populations in Centers of Diversity: A Revision -- 8. The Ecology of Crop Diversity -- 9. Maintaining Crop Diversity On-Farm and Off -- 10. Rights over Genetic Resources and the Demise of the Biological Commons -- 11. Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451995903321 |
Brush Stephen B. <1943-> | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Farmers' bounty [[electronic resource] ] : locating crop diversity in the contemporary world / / Stephen B. Brush |
Autore | Brush Stephen B. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 631.5/23 |
Collana | Yale agrarian studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Crops - Germplasm resources
Germplasm resources, Plant |
ISBN |
1-281-72209-X
9786611722098 0-300-13014-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Encountering Crop Diversity -- 2. A Naturalist's View of Crop Diversity -- 3. The Measure of Crop Diversity -- 4. Crop and Society in Centers of Diversity -- 5. The Ethnoecology of Crop Diversity in Andean Potato Agriculture -- 6. The Farmer's Place in Crop Evolution: Selection and Management -- 7. Genetic Erosion of Crop Populations in Centers of Diversity: A Revision -- 8. The Ecology of Crop Diversity -- 9. Maintaining Crop Diversity On-Farm and Off -- 10. Rights over Genetic Resources and the Demise of the Biological Commons -- 11. Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777850003321 |
Brush Stephen B. <1943-> | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Farmers' bounty : locating crop diversity in the contemporary world / / Stephen B. Brush |
Autore | Brush Stephen B. <1943-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Disciplina | 631.5/23 |
Collana | Yale agrarian studies series |
Soggetto topico |
Crops - Germplasm resources
Germplasm resources, Plant |
ISBN |
1-281-72209-X
9786611722098 0-300-13014-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Encountering Crop Diversity -- 2. A Naturalist's View of Crop Diversity -- 3. The Measure of Crop Diversity -- 4. Crop and Society in Centers of Diversity -- 5. The Ethnoecology of Crop Diversity in Andean Potato Agriculture -- 6. The Farmer's Place in Crop Evolution: Selection and Management -- 7. Genetic Erosion of Crop Populations in Centers of Diversity: A Revision -- 8. The Ecology of Crop Diversity -- 9. Maintaining Crop Diversity On-Farm and Off -- 10. Rights over Genetic Resources and the Demise of the Biological Commons -- 11. Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818507303321 |
Brush Stephen B. <1943-> | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Genes in the field : on-farm conservation of crop diversity / / Stephen B. Brush [et al.] |
Autore | Brush Stephen B. <1943-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa : , : International Development Research Centre, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 631.5233 |
Soggetto topico |
Crops - Genetic engineering
Crops - Germplasm resources |
ISBN |
1-280-71843-9
9786610718436 1-55250-327-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1. The issues of in situ conservation of crop genetic resources; Chapter 2. The genetic structure of crop landraces and the challenge to conserve them in situ on farms; Chapter 3. Barley landraces from the Fertile Crescent: a lesson for plant breeders; Chapter 4. The barleys of Ethiopia; Chapter 5. Traditional management of seed and genetic diversity: what is a landrace?; Chapter 6. Keeping diversity alive: an Ethiopian perspective; Chapter 7. Optimal genetic resource conservation: in situ and ex situ; Chapter 8. The Cultures of the Seed in the Peruvian Andes
Chapter 9. On-farm conservation of crop diversity: policy and institutional lessons from Zimbabwe; Chapter 10. In situ conservation and intellectual property rights; Chapter 11. Farmer decision making and genetic diversity: linking multidisciplinary research to implementation on-farm; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783411303321 |
Brush Stephen B. <1943-> | ||
Ottawa : , : International Development Research Centre, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mountain, Field, and Family : The Economy and Human Ecology of an Andean Valley / / Stephen B. Brush |
Autore | Brush Stephen B. <1943-> |
Edizione | [Reprint 2016] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 199 p., [5] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 330.9/85/063 |
Collana | Anniversary Collection |
Soggetto topico |
Indians of South America - Peru - Economic conditions
Peasantry - Peru Indians of South America - Economic conditions - Peru Peasants - Peru |
ISBN | 1-5128-0098-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, Tables, and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Andean Way: Cultural Adaptations to a Mountain Environment -- 2. Uchucmarca: The Village and Its People -- 3. The Early History of Uchucmarca -- 4. The Formal Organization of Uchucmarca -- 5. Resources for Subsistence: Land -- 6. Agricultural Technology and Labor -- 7. The Exchange of Labor and Goods -- 8. The Myth of the Idle Peasant -- 9. How the Economyj Works: The Role of Kinship -- 10. A Peasant Economy in the Modern World -- Appendix 1. Religious Celebrations -- Appendix 2. Potato Varieties -- Appendix 3. Food Yields from Uehuemarea Agriculture -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996247875503316 |
Brush Stephen B. <1943-> | ||
Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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