Parting Words
Back,
current and coming issues:
There are four back issues, all out of
print but available on people and plants
online ( http://www.kew.org.uk/peopleplants
):
- Issue 1. Keeping
in Touch: Journals, Networks,
Newsletters, Organizations and
Professional Societies. (January,
1996; G.J. Martin and A.L. Hoare,
editors).
- Issue 2: Protecting
Rights: Legal and Ethical
Implications of Ethnobiology.
(July, 1996; G.J. Martin, A.L.
Hoare and D.A. Posey, editors;
co-sponsored by IPGRI).
- Issue
3: Returning
Results: Community and
Environmental Education. (March,
1997; G.J. Martin and A.L. Hoare,
editors).
- Issue
4: Measuring
Diversity: Methods of Assessing
Biological Resources and Local
Knowledge. (December, 1998; G.J.
Martin, A.L. Hoare and A.L.
Agama, editors).
This is number five:
And then:
- Issue 6: Managing Resources:
Community-based Conservation.
- Issue 7: Growing Diversity:
Agroecology and Plant Genetic
Resources.
- Issue 8: Healing the World:
Ecology, Cultural Transition and
the Health of Local Peoples.
Additional
topics for future issues are given in
Issues 1 and 2.
Who supports the
People and Plants Handbook?
The People and
Plants Handbook is a publication of
the WWF-UNESCO-Kew People and Plants
Initiative. Issue 5 is co-sponsored by
ICRAF.
The Handbook
is produced with financial support from
the European Commission (EC), the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, UK
National Lottery Charities Board and the
UK Department for International
Development (DFID).
The Editorial Team
Gary J. Martin, General
Editor Agnes Lee Agama, Associate Editor
Eric Frogé, Design and Production Fatima
Zahmoun, Editorial Assistant
Malcolm Hadley, UNESCO
Advisor Alan Hamilton, WWF Advisor Hew
Prendergast, RBG, Kew Advisor Roger Wang,
Internet Designer
We thank Peter Cooper
and Alison Hoare for their assistance,
and Intermediate Technology Publications,
Centro Agronómico Tropical de
Investigación y Enseñanza, Earthscan
and the Overseas Development Institute
for their permission to reprint the
excerpts on pages 20-23 of this issue.
The opinions expressed in the People
and Plants Handbook are those of the
various authors and contributors cited,
and should not necessarily be attributed
to the editors or sponsoring
institutions. All photographs by G.J.
Martin except where otherwise noted.
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