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Gender Dynamics in Agro-biodiversity Conservation in Sikkim and Nagaland*

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Title Gender Dynamics in Agro-biodiversity Conservation in Sikkim and Nagaland*
 
Creator Goodrich, C G
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Subsistence farmers all over the world, and especially in environments
where high-yielding crops and livestock do not prosper,
play a major role in maintaining agro-biodiversity by cultivating
a large variety of crop species. The Convention on Biodiversity
defines agro-biodiversity as ‘the diversity at all levels of the biological
hierarchy, from genes to ecosystems, that is involved in
agriculture and food production . . . the fundamental and distinct
property of agricultural biodiversity is that it is largely created,
maintained and managed by humans’ (Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity 2001). Thus, agro-biodiversity
is the biological diversity of agriculture-related species and their
wild varieties which occurs at the levels of the agro-ecosystem,
species and gene.
 
Publisher Routledge India
 
Contributor Krishna, S
 
Date 2012
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6582/1/ch7_chanda.pdf
Goodrich, C G (2012) Gender Dynamics in Agro-biodiversity Conservation in Sikkim and Nagaland*. In: Agriculture and Changing Environment: Perspectives on Northeastern India. Routledge India, pp. 166-183. ISBN 978-0415632898