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
Author	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.
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