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Agriculture & Environment: Indigenous knowledge

Book Reviews

Here is a list of the latest articles

Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic world

Stuart McCook reviews a book describing the incorporation of traditional medicines from the Caribbean into European medicines in the 18th century.

Author: Londa Schiebinger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Publication date: 2004

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The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

Author: Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin

Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

Publication date: 2002

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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

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Securing the Harvest: Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops

Author: J. DeVries and G. Toenniessen

Publisher: CABI Publishing

Publication date: February 2002

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