TY - ECHAP KW - biodiversity KW - economic conditions KW - environmental policy KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - sustainable development KW - human ecology KW - ethnobotany KW - ethnophilosophy AU - Paul Richards AB - 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. AN - 93-03367 BT - Paper presented at Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, 5-10 October 1993, The Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe C3 - Intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge C5 - 18 pp. CY - Lake Tahoe DA - 10/1993 LA - English N1 -

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.

N2 - 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. PP - Lake Tahoe PY - 1993 ST - Culture and community values in the selection and maintenance of African rice T2 - Paper presented at Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, 5-10 October 1993, The Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe TI - 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 UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33047173 ER -