Beyond the conventional role of providing food, rice farming in European Mediterranean wetlands performs a valuable non-marketable function related to the provision of environmental services. Rice and biodiversity are jointly produced, so that provision of flooded-rice-fields based environmental services depends crucially on private profitability of rice farming. Recent reforms of the Common Ag...

Abstract This paper builds on the celebrated monograph by James J. Fox, entitled, Harvest of Palm: ecological change in eastern Indonesia (1977). Fox’s work drew attention to contribution sugar palm economies among communities south-eastern Indonesia. His study highlighted contrasting ecologies two orientations livelihoods; one approach celebrates benefits low impact, sustainable lontar islands...

Citation: Roberts SG (2015) Commentary: Large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice vs. wheat agriculture. Talhelm et al. (2014) test the hypothesis that activities which require more intensive collaboration foster more collectivist cultures. They demonstrate that a measure of collectivism correlates with the proportion of cultivated land devoted to rice paddies, which ...

Aim of this study was to evaluate the possible application fields of organic agriculture, the province is a grower's perspective. Because of its accurate and appropriate management, soil and products to help reduce the use of chemicals in production and on track to achieve sustainable development, Mazandaran province is a leader in modern agricultural practices and organic agriculture has the p...

Sustainable food production system is the key to sustainable development especially for hill communities where agriculture is the mainstay of economy. History shows that human societies that can protect their livelihood-based natural resources are able to sustain themselves. So even today we find several indigenous communities obtaining sustained and adequate income/returns from their agricultu...

structural characteristics and spatial distribution of major farming systems in mountain environment of the iranian plateau as well as their developments in the past few decades have been studied by statistical analysis. using this new approach, towards the study of natural resource allocation methods in mountains of iran, the following resulted: land and resource use practices have followed a ...

Theoretically we understand the dimensions of both generic and specific adaptive capacity, however, there are few studies which document actual observed adaptive capacity. This study aims to address this gap by documenting the adaptive capacity of Indian rice production systems, an agrosocio-ecological system. We explore how Indian rice production systems have responded to historical climate sh...

Acknowledgement We at the NAVDANYA wish to acknowledge the farmers contributions who for centuries have grown and conserved diversity in their fields. In particular, we want to thank all those farmers who, through their participation in our conservation efforts are in effect co-authors of this work and are changing India's farm destiny to one of hope and health. Publication of this volume has b...