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

Reference Type Book Chapter
Year of Publication
1993
Contributors Author: Paul Richards
Book Title
Paper presented at Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, 5-10 October 1993, The Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe
Date Published
10/1993
City
Lake Tahoe
Language
English
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Collection Topic
Biodiversity
Keywords
biodiversity
economic conditions
environmental policy
Conservation of natural resources
sustainable development
human ecology
ethnobotany
ethnophilosophy
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.
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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.
URL
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33047173
Conference Name
Intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge
Number of pages
18 pp.
Short Title
Culture and community values in the selection and maintenance of African rice