One of the down-sides of worldwide agricultural development, has been the replacement of native plant species by marketable crops, accompanied by a reduction in the diversity of the seed stock. This accounts for the disappearance of plants with potential medicinal uses, particularly in high biodiversity areas, and, the crowding out of native diversity of edible species by standard, sometimes genetically altered by commercial farming demands, is an...
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Seeds of life : women and agricultural biodiversity in Africa
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indigenous knowledge
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Easton, Peter; Ronald, Margaret.
Seeds of life : women and agricultural biodiversity in Africa (English). Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Notes|no 23 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/867891468002370019