Cultivating biodiversity: understanding, analysing and using agricultural diversity.

Introduction to the book. The editors . PART I AGRODIVERSITY ANALYZED 1. Introduction to the understanding of agrodiversity: Stocking, [provisional title] 2. Agrodiversity and agrobiodiversity. Brookfield 3. Agrodiversity at the scales of farm and landscape. Brookfield 4. Agrodiversity in relation to land degradation and sustainable rural livelihoods. Stocking,. [awaited, provisional title]. 5. Guidelines on agrodiversity assessment Brookfield, Stocking and Brookfield, [substantially revised from PLEC News and Views 13, 1999] 6. Guidelines for the assessment of plant species diversity in agricultural landscapes. Zarin, Guo and Enu-Kwesi, [substantially revised from PLEC News and Views 13, 1999] 7. Household Level Agrobiodiversity Assessment (HH-ABA) Guo, Padoch, Fu, Dao, and Coffey. [ Reprinted with minor revisions from PLEC News and Views 16, 2000]. PART II -FOCUS ON PEOPLE 8. Spotting expertise in a dynamic landscape. Padoch 9. PLEC demonstration activities: a review of procedures and experiences [from Pinedo-Vasquez, Gyasi and Coffey, [Reprinted from PLEC News and Views 17, 2001]. 10. Indigenous knowledge in space and time. Amanor, [Reprinted from PN&V 5, 1995]. 11. Surveying Diversity at Household level in wet-rice fields at Daka, Yunnan. Fu, Guo, Chen, Cui 12. Working with farmers is not simple: the case of PLEC Tanzania Kaihura 13. Genesis and purpose of the women farmers' group at Jachie, central Ghana. Oduro PART III. AGRODIVERSITY CASE STUDIES 14. Agrodiversity assessment and analysis in diverse and dynamic small-scale farms in Arumeru, Arusha, Tanzania Kaihura, Ndondi and Kemikimba, [Revised from original in PLEC News and Views 16, 2000] 15. Biodiversity as a product of smallholders' strategies for overcoming changes in their natural and social landscapes: a report from Amazonia. Pinedo-Vasquez, Padoch, McGrath and Ximenes, [Reprinted from PLEC News and Views 15, 2000]. 16. From forests to field: incorporating smallholder knowledge in the Camu-camu programme in Peru, Pinedo-Vasquez and Pinedo-Panduro, [Reprinted from PN&V 10, 1998] 17. Sustainable management of an Amazonian forest for timber production : a myth or reality? Pinedo-Vasquez and Rabelo, [Reprinted from PN&V 12, 1999] 18. Diversity of upland rice and of wild vegetables in Baka, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Fu and Chen, [Reprinted from PN&V 12, 1999] 19. Evaluation of the cultivation of Ammomum villosum under tropical forest in southwestern Yunnan. Guan, Dao, Cui, [reprinted from PN&V 4, 1995] 20. Intensification and diversification of land use in the highlands of northern Thailand. Kanok Rerkasem. Charal Thongarm, Chawalit Korsamphan, Narit Yimyam, Benjavan Rerkasem. 21. The changing situation in the Fouta Djallon, Guinee. Fofana, Diallo, Barry, Boiro, Kanne and Barry [incomplete, waiting further information from Conakry]. 22. Traditional forms of conserving biodiversity within agriculture, their changing character and relevance to food security in Ghana. Edwin Gyasi {final version still awaited. PART IV: THE WAY FORWARD 23. Conclusions and recommendations for policy in agricultural development. The Editors. [Not yet written].