TY - ECHAP
KW - alternative farming systems
KW - intercropping
KW - raised fields
AU - Miguel A. Altieri
AU - Laura C Merrick
AU - E. O. Wilson
AU - Frances M. Peter
AB - Modern agriculture is pushing traditional farmers to plant areas with monocultures of genetically uniform plants. This is risky because the plants are vulnerable to yield-limiting factors. Situ conservation methods have many benefits; although they do not provide a panacea for conserving natural sources of crop genetic resources. Researchers in certain countries have helped farmers return to traditional chinampas and multilayered, specied-rich gardens. In Bolivia, project AGRUCO is helping peasants recover their production autonomy.
AN - 90-00632
BT - Biodiversity
CN - QH75.A1N32 1986
CY - Washington, DC
DA - 01/1988
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - Modern agriculture is pushing traditional farmers to plant areas with monocultures of genetically uniform plants. This is risky because the plants are vulnerable to yield-limiting factors. Situ conservation methods have many benefits; although they do not provide a panacea for conserving natural sources of crop genetic resources. Researchers in certain countries have helped farmers return to traditional chinampas and multilayered, specied-rich gardens. In Bolivia, project AGRUCO is helping peasants recover their production autonomy.
PB - National Academy of Sciences
PP - Washington, DC
PY - 1988
SE - 41
SN - 0-309-03783-2
SP - 361
EP - 369
T2 - Biodiversity
TI - Agroecology and in situ conservation of native crop diversity in the third world
UR - https://doi.org/10.17226/989
ER -