TY - ECHAP
KW - deforestation
KW - Latin America
KW - congresses
KW - forestry
KW - rainforests
KW - history
KW - forest ecology
AU - Silvia del Amo R
AU - Harold K. Steen
AU - Richard P. Tucker
AB - In traditional systems, genetic biodiversity is maintained both through cultural intervention and through natural selection. On the other hand, traditional cultivars have a twofold value that make them worth preserving: as germplasm repositories that can eventually be inserted into modern crops, and as a complex genetic bank adapted to specific environment conditions. To people living in developing countries, these cultivars have an additional value -- to allow production for self-subsistence where modern crops are either not available or not adequate.
AN - 93-03451
BT - Changing tropical forests: Historical perspectives on today's challenges in Central & South America: Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forestry History Group, San José, Costa Rica
CN - SD153.C43 1992
CY - Durham, NC
DA - 12/1991
DB - Pennsylvania State University Libraries
LA - English
N2 - In traditional systems, genetic biodiversity is maintained both through cultural intervention and through natural selection. On the other hand, traditional cultivars have a twofold value that make them worth preserving: as germplasm repositories that can eventually be inserted into modern crops, and as a complex genetic bank adapted to specific environment conditions. To people living in developing countries, these cultivars have an additional value -- to allow production for self-subsistence where modern crops are either not available or not adequate.
PB - Forest History Society
PP - Durham, NC
PY - 1992
RN - ISBN indicates publisher is Duke University Press
SN - 0-8223-1247-6
SP - 154
EP - 164
ST - Problems of forest conservation
T2 - Changing tropical forests: Historical perspectives on today's challenges in Central & South America: Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forestry History Group, San José, Costa Rica
TI - Problems of forest conservation: A feasible mechanism for biodiversity conservation
UR - http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311396291
ER -