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Interactions of formal and informal knowledge systems in village-based tree management in central India

Brodt, Sonja - In: Agriculture and Human Values 16 (1999) 4, pp. 355-363

This study critiques the idea of a “Western science -- indigenous knowledge” dichotomy in agricultural knowledge by examining the hybrid nature of knowledge use and incorporation by villagers in Madhya Pradesh, India. By analyzing knowledge systems as multi-leveled structures consisting of...

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Ancient use and manipulation of landscape in the Yalahau region of the northern Maya lowlands

Fedick, Scott; Morrison, Bethany - In: Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004) 2, pp. 207-219

presented a variety of possibilities and challenges to the subsistence practices of the ancient Maya. The Yalahau Regional Human … Ecology Project has been investigating ancient Maya agricultural practices and use of resources in a unique fresh … Yalahau region once supported numerous Maya communities and civic-ceremonial centers, particularly during the Late Preclassic …

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Agriculture and biodiversity: Finding our place in this world

Lockwood, Jeffrey - In: Agriculture and Human Values 16 (1999) 4, pp. 365-379

Agriculture has been recently viewed as the primary destructive force of biodiversity, but the places that produce our food and fiber may also hold the key to saving the richness of life on earth. This argument is based on three fundamental positions. First, it is argued that to value and...

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