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

TitleCulture 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
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication1993
AuthorsRichards, P
Book TitlePaper presented at Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, 5-10 October 1993, The Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe
Date PublishedOct. 5-10 1993
CityLake Tahoe
LanguageEnglish
Keywordsbiodiversity; Conservation of natural resources; economic conditions; environmental policy; ethnobotany; ethnophilosophy; human ecology; sustainable development
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.

Notes

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.

URLhttp://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33047173
Conference Name

Intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge

Number of pages

18 pp.

Short TitleCulture and community values in the selection and maintenance of African rice

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