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Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes (Volume 1) (California Studies in Critical Human Geography) by Karl S. Zimmerer is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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Two of the world's most pressing needs—biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World—are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as is widely believed. He uses the lengthy history of small-scale farming by Indians in Peru, including contemporary practices and attitudes, to shed light on prospects for the future. During prolonged fieldwork among Peru's Quechua peasants and villagers in the mountains near Cuzco, Zimmerer found convincing evidence that much of the region's biodiversity is being skillfully conserved on a de facto basis, as has been true during centuries of tumultuous agrarian transitions. Diversity occurs unevenly, however, because of the inability of poorer Quechua farmers to plant the same variety as their well-off neighbors and because land use pressures differ in different locations. Social, political, and economic upheavals have accentuated the unevenness, and Zimmerer's geographical findings are all the more important as a result. Diversity is indeed at se
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- Author
- Karl S. Zimmerer
- Publisher
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520917033
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Anthropology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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