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CHANGING FORTUNES
BIODIVERSITY AND PEASANT LIVELIHOOD IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES |
| By: |
Karl S. Zimmerer |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£53.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520203038 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520203037 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 January, 1997 |
| Series: |
California Studies in Critical Human Geography 1 |
| Pages: |
309 |
| Description: |
This investigation into two of the world's most pressing needs (biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World) challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as was thought. |
| Synopsis: |
Two of the world's most pressing needs--biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World--are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as is widely believed. He uses the lengthy history of small-scale farming by Indians in Peru, including contemporary practices and attitudes, to shed light on prospects for the future. During prolonged fieldwork among Peru's Quechua peasants and villagers in the mountains near Cuzco, Zimmerer found convincing evidence that much of the region's biodiversity is being skillfully conserved on a de facto basis, as has been true during centuries of tumultuous agrarian transitions. Diversity occurs unevenly, however, because of the inability of poorer Quechua farmers to plant the same variety as their well-off neighbors and because land use pressures differ in different locations. Social, political, and economic upheavals have accentuated the unevenness, and Zimmerer's geographical findings are all the more important as a result.Diversity is indeed at serious risk, but not necessarily for the same reasons that have been cited by others. The originality of this study is in its correlation of ecological conservation, ethnic expression, and economic development. |
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US |
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University of California Press |
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