Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity

Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity

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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

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