From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods

Latin America has given the world many of its key agricultural products. Food crops like potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, beans, and many, many others have traveled far and wide....[It] is one of the richest concentrations of biodiversity on the face of the globe.....Today, however, many people in r...

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Autor principal: Schioler, Ebbe
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Future Harvest 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155900
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description Latin America has given the world many of its key agricultural products. Food crops like potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, beans, and many, many others have traveled far and wide....[It] is one of the richest concentrations of biodiversity on the face of the globe.....Today, however, many people in rural Latin America live in extreme poverty....At the same time, the rich mountain and lowland ecosystems of the American tropics are threatened by degradation and loss of species.....Ebbe Schiøler -- an intrepid traveler and untiring observer of the CGIAR and of the work of the Future Harvest centers it supports -- has journeyed to seven countries to gather, first-hand, the stories of the men and women who benefit on a day-to-day basis from the research of the centers. (From Foreword by Hubert Zandstra, Chairman of the Board, Future Harvest)"
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spelling CGSpace1559002025-01-10T06:35:53Z From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods Schioler, Ebbe biodiversity agricultural innovation agricultural research agriculture agricultural cooperatives developing countries case studies environmental factors Latin America has given the world many of its key agricultural products. Food crops like potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, beans, and many, many others have traveled far and wide....[It] is one of the richest concentrations of biodiversity on the face of the globe.....Today, however, many people in rural Latin America live in extreme poverty....At the same time, the rich mountain and lowland ecosystems of the American tropics are threatened by degradation and loss of species.....Ebbe Schiøler -- an intrepid traveler and untiring observer of the CGIAR and of the work of the Future Harvest centers it supports -- has journeyed to seven countries to gather, first-hand, the stories of the men and women who benefit on a day-to-day basis from the research of the centers. (From Foreword by Hubert Zandstra, Chairman of the Board, Future Harvest)" 2002 2024-10-24T12:42:46Z 2024-10-24T12:42:46Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155900 en Open Access application/pdf Future Harvest International Food Policy Research Institute Schioler, Ebbe. 2002. From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155900
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Schioler, Ebbe
From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods
title From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods
title_full From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods
title_fullStr From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods
title_full_unstemmed From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods
title_short From the rural heart of Latin America: farmers, agricultural research and livelihoods
title_sort from the rural heart of latin america farmers agricultural research and livelihoods
topic biodiversity
agricultural innovation
agricultural research
agriculture
agricultural cooperatives
developing countries
case studies
environmental factors
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155900
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