Host range expansion, or adaptation of insects to new crops, is a world-wide phenomenon that has been observed repeatedly and extensively. It is particularly well documented in North America, where forests and prairies consisting of indigenous plants were planted extensively to introduced cultivated ...
Indigenous highland communities in the Peruvian Andes mountains sustain one of the most diverse food systems in the world. Through their specially adapted farming techniques, they conserve some of the world’s most important agro-biodiversity; crops that could be key to food security in a warming...
Sustained by First Nations: European newcomers' use of Indigenous plant foods in temperate North America Indigenous Peoples of North America have collectively used approximately 1800 different native species of plants, algae, lichensand fungi as food. When Eur... NJ Turner,PV Aderkas - 《Acta Soci...
American Holly is the most robust evergreen broadleaf tree indigenous to North America. It is rarely cultivated today. From seed, it is easy to grow once the dormancy is overcome. I began my plantings over 20 years ago to produce holly seed and find the most vigorous forest like trees wi...
Irish potato (Solanum tuberesumL.) is indigenous to South America near the present border of Peru and Bolivia but not Ireland (Spooner et al.2005). According to Robert and Cartwhight (2006), it belongs to the family solanaceae, and is named after Ireland country because it is associated wi...
Jhum (Shifting cultivation) has been used by the local indigenous populations of CHTs for generations and is the predominant land-use system in the steep terrain [88]. As stated earlier low-fertile soils are ideal for millets' cultivation. As millets have C4 carbon-sequestering characteristics...
Indigenous people in Paraguay cultivate gray-seeded mucuna leaves, a great dead cover that shields soil from weeds and erosion. Cover crops are a sustainable farming strategy, which boost SOM and enhance the dynamics of soil water. In a maize–soybean cropping system, scientists discovered that ...
Moving Beyond Postdevelopment: Facilitating Indigenous Alternatives for "Development" Department of Social Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia g.curry@curtin.edu.au;... GN Curry - 《Economic Geography》 被引量: 160发表: 2003年 Pyrenopho...
From left to right: barley, wheat, oats and rye. MAIZE Maize (also known as corn) was first cultivated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. This is a very common sight in Belgium! The male and female inflorescences (flower-bearing parts of the plant) are pos...
Recently, there has been a development in transgenic technologies in many countries to meet nutritional needs of increasing worlds҆ population. However, there are some concerns about possible risks in the field of growing genetically modified (GM) food, such as threats of biodiversity and food al...