Changes in farmers' knowledge of maize diversity in highland Guatemala, 1927/37-2004

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  van Etten, Jacob ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOBOTANY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KNOWLEDGE; MAIZE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOMENCLATURE; SOCIAL CHANGE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ETHNOBOTANY; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; SOCIAL CHANGE; TERMINOLOGY; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34250807667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-2-12     Document Type: Article

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