This book shows how, traditionally, farmers cultivate and conserve biodiversity while, at the same time, using the land for food production. It will appeal to policy makers and practitioners, and to university students and teachers, including those of agriculture, social science, biological science and others relating to environmental or natural resources management and sustainable development.
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Through case studies in West Africa (principally Ghana; Maps A and B) and drawing from nearly 10 years of research experience of the United Nations University project on People, Land Management, and Environmental Change (UNU/PLEC), this book demonstrates the importance of traditional, indigenous, or local farmer knowledge and practices in sustainable conservation of biodiversity and related natural resources by agrodiversity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indigenous rice varieties, large liane, yam types, managing agrodiversity, snail rearing, complex agricultural landscapes, home garden agroforestry, bush yams, mean water balance, traditional agroforestry systems, monocrop maize, conserved forests, slashed vegetation, aerial yams, traditional cropping systems, bitter yam, stration site, annual cropping systems, yam varieties, heterogeneity indices, yam species, biophysical resources, water yams, maize grain yield, soil chemical properties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Africa, Biodiversity Advisory Group, Meteorological Services Dept, Odorkor Agbo, University of Ghana, Upper East, Environmental Protection Agency, Cultivating Biodiversity, Gold Coast, Dioscoreaceae Small, Ministry of Agriculture, Slash-and-burn Figure, Upper West, Accra Figure, Brong Ahafo, Brown White, Ghana Guinea, Journal of Ecology, Mother Earth, Oxford University Press, Bad Less, Crop Intermixture, Endre Nyerges, Ghana All, Ghana Jachie New!
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Through case studies in West Africa (principally Ghana; Maps A and B) and drawing from nearly 10 years of research experience of the United Nations University project on People, Land Management, and Environmental Change (UNU/PLEC), this book demonstrates the importance of traditional, indigenous, or local farmer knowledge and practices in sustainable conservation of biodiversity and related natural resources by agrodiversity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indigenous rice varieties, large liane, yam types, managing agrodiversity, snail rearing, complex agricultural landscapes, home garden agroforestry, bush yams, mean water balance, traditional agroforestry systems, monocrop maize, conserved forests, slashed vegetation, aerial yams, traditional cropping systems, bitter yam, stration site, annual cropping systems, yam varieties, heterogeneity indices, yam species, biophysical resources, water yams, maize grain yield, soil chemical properties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Africa, Biodiversity Advisory Group, Meteorological Services Dept, Odorkor Agbo, University of Ghana, Upper East, Environmental Protection Agency, Cultivating Biodiversity, Gold Coast, Dioscoreaceae Small, Ministry of Agriculture, Slash-and-burn Figure, Upper West, Accra Figure, Brong Ahafo, Brown White, Ghana Guinea, Journal of Ecology, Mother Earth, Oxford University Press, Bad Less, Crop Intermixture, Endre Nyerges, Ghana All, Ghana Jachie New!
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- Cultivating Biodiversity by Harold Brookfield on 5 pages
- Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural Change in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana by Edwin A. Gyasi in Front Matter, page 4, and page 6
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development by Brokensha on page 6, and Back Matter
- Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa by Paul Richards on page 7
- More People, Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya by Mary Tiffen on page 247
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- Agricultural Biodiversity in Smallholder Farms of East Africa by United Nations in Back Matter
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