@inbook{449, keywords = {biodiversity, economic conditions, environmental policy, Conservation of natural resources, sustainable development, human ecology, ethnobotany, ethnophilosophy}, author = {Paul Richards}, title = {Culture and community values in the selection and maintenance of African rice: Implications for policy and management of a local agricultural germplasm resource of potential global significance}, abstract = {The first aim of the paper is to bring out the extent to which O. glaberrima biodiversity is a cultural product; specifically, the response of West African farming communities to the challenge of survival in a harsh environment with limited labor resources. A second, related aim is to underscore the potential obligation of the wider rice-dependent world to the communities and cultures that have provided them with this legacy of hardy rice germplasm.}, year = {1993}, journal = {Paper presented at Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, 5-10 October 1993, The Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe}, month = {10/1993}, address = {Lake Tahoe}, url = {http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33047173}, note = {

Also published in Valuing local knowledge: Indigenous people and intellectual property rights edited by Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky. GF21.V37 1996 2nd floor Paterno. See url for the WorldCAT record of this book.

}, language = {English}, }