Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity

Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Explores the diverse ways home gardens contribute to agricultural biodiversity.

Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains the ways both rural and urban households manage home-garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with change and adapt their crops to new situations.

About the Author
Pablo B. Eyzaguirre is a senior scientist at the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute in Italy. Olga F. Linares is a senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity,Pablo B. Eyzaguirre,Olga F. Linares,Smithsonian Books,1588341127,Agrobiodiversity,Agrobiodiversity conservation,Anthropology - General,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Gardening / Horticulture,Kitchen gardens,Life Sciences - Botany,Plants - General,Reference,Social Science,Sociology,Tropics,Agriculture & Farming,Crop husbandry,Cuba,Ethiopia,Ghana,Social & cultural anthropology,Venezuela,Vietnam

Buy Best Books:

1. Humus, its Structure and Role in Agriculture and Environment
2. If Only We Would Listen
3. I'm Sorry You Can't Hatch an Egg
4. Increasing Climate Variability and Change : Reducing the Vulnerability of Agriculture and Forestry
5. Insect Pests
6. Irrigation and agricultural development: In a CADA
7. Isotopic Studies of Azolla and Nitrogen Fertilization of Rice (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences)
8. Land is Life
9. Metabolism of Agrochemicals in Plants
10. Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates : Their Development and Transmission (CABI Publishing)

Buy Best Books

Recommended Books

1. All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat
2. Tudor Style
3. Everything You Didn't Need to Know About the USA
4. Negotiate Your Commercial Lease
5. Laugh and Learn: 95 Ways to Use Humor for More Effective Teaching and Training
6. Gumbo lilies
7. Introduction to Wine Laboratory Practices and Procedures
8. Numerical Methods for Physics
9. Master of Wolves
10. Limits
11. Making Friends : Training Your Dog Positively
12. Gothic Costumes Paper Dolls
13. Mrs. Hoover's Pueblo Walls: The Primitive And The Modern In The Lou Henry Hoover House
14. Layer of Protection Analysis : Simplified Process Risk Assessment
15. Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a New Blueprint for Win