Smithsonian books has published Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity, edited by Pablo Eyzaguirre and Olga Linares. What is a home garden? The editors write that ”home gardens are microenvironments within a larger farming system that contain high levels of species diversity and may contain crop speci...
The papers in this volume were originally presented at a workshop on participatory plant breeding. The workshop was convened to crystallize a novel approach that plant breeders, genetic resource conservationists and social scientists were demonstrating with increasing success. That approach is to...
Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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Iwanaga, M.
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[Participatory plant breeding: Proceedings of a workshop on participatory plant breeding, 26-29 July 1995, Wageningen, The Netherlands]
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Participatory plant breeding: Proceedings of a workshop on participatory plant breeding, 26-29 July 1995, Wageningen, The Netherlands
The Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS), a new initiative within the ICSU global change programs, aims to integrate research on the stewardship of social?ecological systems, the services they generate, and the relationships among natural capital, human wellbeing, livelihoods, inequalit...
Carpenter, Stephen R.
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Folke, C.
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Norstro, A.
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Olsson, O.
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Schultz, L.
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Agarwal, B.
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Balvanera, Patricia
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Castilla, J.C.
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Cramer, W.
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DeFries, R.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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Hughes, T.P.
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Polasky, S.
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Sanusi, Z.
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Scholes, Robert J.
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Spierenburg, M.
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[Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social-ecological systems.]
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Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social-ecological systems.
The results of the Home Garden Project presented in these Workshop Proceedings contribute to national and global strategies for including home gardens as a distinct and important component of in situ conservation of agrobiodiversity. The national and comparative studies have also begun to establi...
Watson, J.W.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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[Home gardens and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources in farming systems: Proceedings of the second international home gardens workshop, 17-19 July 2001, Witzenhausen, Germany]
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Home gardens and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources in farming systems: Proceedings of the second international home gardens workshop, 17-19 July 2001, Witzenhausen, Germany
Oudenhoven, F.J.W. van
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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Mijatovic, D.
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[Bridging managed and natural landscapes - The role of traditional agriculture in maintaining the diversity and resilience of natural ecosystems]
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Bridging managed and natural landscapes - The role of traditional agriculture in maintaining the diversity and resilience of natural ecosystems
Farmers of Kitui District of Kenya mainly depend on subsistence farming and local resources from the immediate environment for their livelihood. Private self help groups serve as forums for operating a microcredit loan and providing labour during planting,weeding and harvesting. Such groups also ...
Fujimura, R.
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Morimoto, Y.
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Maundu, P.
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Inoue, M.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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[Poster on mobilizing agro-biodiversity and social networks to cope with adverse effects of climate and social changes: experiences from Kitui, Kenya.]
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Poster on mobilizing agro-biodiversity and social networks to cope with adverse effects of climate and social changes: experiences from Kitui, Kenya.
Fujimura, R.
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Morimoto, Y.
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Maundu, P.
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Inoue, M.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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[Mobilizing agro-biodiversity and social networks to cope with adverse effects of climate and social changes: experiences from Kitui, Kenya]
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Mobilizing agro-biodiversity and social networks to cope with adverse effects of climate and social changes: experiences from Kitui, Kenya
Johns, T.
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Powell, B.
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Maundu, P.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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[Agricultural biodiversity as a link between traditional food systems and contemporary development, social integrity and ecological health]
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Agricultural biodiversity as a link between traditional food systems and contemporary development, social integrity and ecological health
Morimoto, Y.
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Maundu, P.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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[The bottle gourd: its origin, travels round the globe with man and cultural influences on its fruit characteristics]
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The bottle gourd: its origin, travels round the globe with man and cultural influences on its fruit characteristics
In order to understand farmers’ perceptions of resilience
in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
(SEPLS), a participatory field assessment was conducted in
Kenya. A tool developed by the United Nations University-
Institute of Advanced Studies and Bioversity International
was use...
Morimoto, Y.
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Maundu, P.
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Mijatovic, D.
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Bergamini, N.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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[Assessing farmers’ perception for resilience of socio-ecological production landscapes in central and eastern Kenya]
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Assessing farmers’ perception for resilience of socio-ecological production landscapes in central and eastern Kenya