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 inAndean 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 ofthe Biological Commons11. Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Stephen Brush develops a framework for investigating biological diversity in agriculture that focuses on the knowledge & practice of farmers, & he shows how this human ecology perspective can be applied to global issues that affect crop resources
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index
