Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Language: A Resource for Nature 143 Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines); (3) Tropical climates, fostering higher numbers and ...

144 Before Agriculture been said of Australian Aboriginal tribes could be said in hundreds of other cases of local peoples aroun ...

Language: A Resource for Nature 145 ment.^12 In turn, local languages lose their crucial function of communicating and upholding ...

146 Before Agriculture The regression lines drawn here represent: (a) a linear model for 30 and above age group (r^2 = 0.002; y ...

Language: A Resource for Nature 147 Often, the loss of traditional languages and cultures may be hastened by environ- mental deg ...

148 Before Agriculture Preserving and Restoring Language, Culture, and Land Community efforts The Yoeme example clearly shows ho ...

Language: A Resource for Nature 149 from what humans throughout history have done in situations of contact: mixing and matching, ...

150 Before Agriculture conservation: as a matter of ‘keeping options alive’ and of presenting ‘monocul- tures of the mind’.^16 I ...

Language: A Resource for Nature 151 what they do. It also means that scientists must become much better at listening to what ind ...

152 Before Agriculture Box 5.1 Terralingua ... at a glance ‘Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity’ i ...

Language: A Resource for Nature 153 diversity in the debates surrounding international instruments concerned with biodiversity, ...

154 Before Agriculture 7 The concept of ‘linguistic ecology’ described here is due to Peter Mühlhausler, building on earlier wor ...

Language: A Resource for Nature 155 the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology. Zed Books, London/Atlantic Heights ...

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6 Our Vanishing Genetic Resources Jack R. Harlan All of the major food and fibre crops of the world are of ancient origin. The m ...

160 Early Agriculture Artificial selection is often very intense, for the only forms to survive are those that man chooses to pl ...

Our Vanishing Genetic Resources 161 the breeder’s standpoint, it is now being imperiled. When new barleys replace those grown by ...

162 Early Agriculture 1965 The panel of experts was appointed. 1967 FAO and the International Biological Program (IBP) jointly s ...