- Title
- Plants for health, life and spirit in Africa : implications for biodiversity and cultural diversity conservation
- Title
- Policy brief, no. 4
- Creator
- Cocks, Michelle L, Dold, Anthony P
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6617
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016225
- Description
- [From Introduction] Natural resources are often only perceived as contributing to rural livelihoods through food production and household welfare. There is a growing wealth of information capturing the direct-use values of the environment and consequent recognition of natural resources as being “the poor man's overcoat”. These approaches, however, have failed to fully account for the various ways in which different groups of people make use of, and find value in biodiversity. New developments within the field of anthropology have begun to explore the relationship between biodiversity and human diversity. This view has largely come about because many of the areas of highest biological diversity are inhabited by indigenous and traditional people, providing what the Declaration of Belem (1988) calls an 'inextricable link' between biological and cultural diversity (Posey 1999). The term bio-cultural diversity was introduced by Posey in 1999 to describe the concept denoting this link.
- Description
- Funding was received from the South Africa-Netherlands Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) and the International Foundation of Science (IFS)
- Format
- 2 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Environmental Science
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Cocks, M & Dold, T (2009) Plants for Health, Life and Spirit in Africa: Implications for Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity Conservation. Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University. Policy Brief, no. 4, 2009.
- Rights
- Rhodes University
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