Enduring seeds: native american agriculture and wild plant conservation / Gary Paul Nabhan
Por: Nabhan, Gary Paul [autor].
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Editor: San Francisco, California, United States: North Point Press Gary Paul Nabhan, 1989Descripción: xiii, 225 páginas ; 23 centímetros.Tipo de contenido: Texto Tipo de medio: Sin medio Tipo de portador: VolumenISBN: 0865473439; 9780865473430.Tema(s): Agricultura tradicional
| Semillas | Conservación de la diversidad de las plantasDescriptor(es) geográficos: América del Norte Clasificación: 306.349097 / N3 Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía: páginas 205-217 e índice: páginas 219-225 Número de sistema: 9141Contenidos:Mostrar
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Acervo General | 306.349097 N3 | Disponible | ECO010020202 |
Incluye bibliografía: páginas 205-217 e índice: páginas 219-225
Foreword by Wendell Berry.. Acknowledgments.. Prologue: Enduring Seeds—The Sacred Lotus and the Common Bean.. Part One: A New World Perspective.. Chapter One: The Flowering of Diversity.. Chapter Two: Diversity Lost: The Wet and the Dry Tropics.. Chapter Three: Fields Infused with Wildness.. Chapter Four: Invisible Erosion: The Rise and Fall of Native Farming.. Chapter Five: A Spirit Earthly Enough: Locally Adapted Crops and Persistent Cultures.. Chapter Six: New and Old Ways of Saving: Botanical Gardens, Seed Banks, Heritage Farms, and Biosphere Reserves.. Part Two: The Local Parables.. Chapter Seven: Wild-Rice: The Endangered, the Sacred, and the Tamed.. Chapter Eight: The Exile and the Holy Anomaly: Wild American Sunflowers.. Chapter Nine: Lost Gourds and Spent Soils on the Shores of Okeechobee.. Chapter Ten : Drowning in a Shallow Gene Pool: The Factory Turkey.. Chapter Eleven: Harvest Time: Northern Plains Agricultural Change.. Chapter Twelve: Turning Foxholes into Compost Heaps, Shooting Ranges into Shelterbelts.. Bibliographic Essays.. Literature Cited.. Index
Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggests fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions. eng