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Agriculture and Human Values 21: 101–103, 2004. Regular readers of this journal need no reminder of the same time, though, this introductory essay strives how thoroughly human values permeate agricultural to convey some of the commonalities that emerged, technology or how they consequently impact issues unifying the contributions without sacrificing the valu- of social equity and environmental sustainability. The able heterogeneity of the authors and of the native contributors to this special issue all evaluate some ecologies they interpret. aspect of native ecologies – that is, the heterogeneous The first group of papers presents case studies ecological knowledge systems and practices involved of contemporary native ecologies, in which direct in the food production of groups that have lived in their observation can render detailed characteristics discern- particular places for many generations. Such native able. Most basically, the authors emphasize that native ecologies can involve values quite different than those ecologies differ fundamentally from and provide of the pervasive and largely homogenous, modern useful alternatives to modern agriculture, reflecting the agriculture of the West. And such native ecologies conclusions of a much larger literature (Wilken, 1987; might, therefore, be key to addressing social and Clay, 1988; Netting, 1993; Altieri, 1995;
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Published: Oct 5, 2004
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