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
| Title | 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 |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Year of Publication | 1993 |
| Authors | Richards, P |
| Book Title | Paper presented at Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Knowledge, 5-10 October 1993, The Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe |
| Date Published | Oct. 5-10 1993 |
| City | Lake Tahoe |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | biodiversity; 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. |
| 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 |
