Vanishing Crops of Traditional Agriculture: The Case of Tarwi (Lupinus mutabilis) in the Andes
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JOURNAL:
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Proceedings of the Association of American Geographers,
1(??),
47 -
51.
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YEAR:
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1969
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Journal Article
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None
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Geography
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-385-673
(Last edited on
2002/12/30 17:04:18 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
With increased emphasis on monoculture throughout the world, about 200 cultigens have retreated in this century from their former agricultural importance. Tarwi, a domesticated lupine confined in its cultivation to the Central Andean Highlands, is chosen to demonstrate the forces at work in this process of impoverishment. The transfer of Old World agriculture brought other leguminous seeds as dietary competitors; more recently, Western ideas of agricultural efficiency have rapidly infiltrated peasant modes and tarwi's decline is now greatly accelerated. The restriction of tarwi to the conservative Indian class, minor food use, and contracting field patterns reflect its peripheral status. As more of the world's farmers replace such marginal crops for high yielding, genetically improved plants, there is a pressing need to collect more empirical data on evanescent cultigens, in part to develop a mroe theoretical understanding of peasant tillage, but also to help to make more intelligent decisions about salvaging for the future much of this evolutionary diversity.
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