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Cultivating Biodiversity: Understanding, Analyzing and Using Agricultural Diversity

Author: Harold Brookfield et al

Publisher: Intermediate Technology Development Group

Publication date: April 2003

Reviewer: Aakanksha Kumar

EN

"The book … tries to assess the effect of our agricultural practices over the past 50 years, and concludes that all is not lost. Thanks to the efforts of smallholding farmers, who have had the sense not to be swayed by the generally 'dismissive view of traditional agriculture', and have safeguarded and propagated local species through their continued learning-by-doing attitude."

Link to full review in TerraGreen

Price: £12.95

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