Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Establishment, Planning and Implementation of a National Wildlands System in Costa Rica: a Case Study
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Current Topics in Forest Research
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Thirty-four papers are presented in nine categories: silviculture/ecology, genetics, soils and nutrients, regeneration, forest products, sociology, economics, policy, and insects and diseases. Also included is the keynote address, "Women in natural resources," by R. Max Peterson
Wildlife and Protected Area Management
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251040324
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Forest Resources Assessment 1990
Author: Devendra PandeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Jungle Laboratories
Author: Gabriela Soto LaveagaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Yet few people today are aware of Mexico’s role in achieving these advances in modern medicine. In Jungle Laboratories, Gabriela Soto Laveaga reconstructs the story of how rural yam pickers, international pharmaceutical companies, and the Mexican state collaborated and collided over the barbasco. By so doing, she sheds important light on a crucial period in Mexican history and challenges us to reconsider who can produce science. Soto Laveaga traces the political, economic, and scientific development of the global barbasco industry from its emergence in the 1940s, through its appropriation by a populist Mexican state in 1970, to its obsolescence in the mid-1990s. She focuses primarily on the rural southern region of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, where the yam grew most freely and where scientists relied on local, indigenous knowledge to cultivate and harvest the plant. Rural Mexicans, at first unaware of the pharmaceutical and financial value of barbasco, later acquired and deployed scientific knowledge to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, lobby the Mexican government, and ultimately transform how urban Mexicans perceived them. By illuminating how the yam made its way from the jungles of Mexico, to domestic and foreign scientific laboratories where it was transformed into pills, to the medicine cabinets of millions of women across the globe, Jungle Laboratories urges us to recognize the ways that Mexican peasants attained social and political legitimacy in the twentieth century, and positions Latin America as a major producer of scientific knowledge.
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Benson Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Forestry Policies in the Caribbean
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251042335
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Timber Harvesting in the Central Rockies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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