Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World

By B. Pickersgill. 2005

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

A general framework for analysing diversity in science, technology and society (2007, background): “…1996, unpublished work); crystals diverse structures (Shevchenko et al. 2006); amino acids diverse sequences (Wright et al. 2005); phyla diverse taxa (Sneath & Sokal 1973); ecologies diverse species ( Forey et al. 1994); agronomies diverse crops (Pimm 2004); technologies diverse forms (Anon.”
Biological Diversity in Agriculture and Global Change (2010, background): “Significant evidence of the latter includes extensive de facto continuation of the use of farmer varieties and breeds in complex agroecosystems worldwide (19, 39, 41, 54, 83, 86, 94, 155).”
No hay ganancia en la milpa: the agrarian question, food sovereignty, and the on-farm conservation of agrobiodiversity in the Guatemalan highlands (2009, background): “Chayanov’s (1977) proposition that the viability of the peasantry is ensured by an internal logic of satisficing and rural institutions that are incompatible with capitalist forms of provisioning.”