Citation:

20 Miguel A Altieri. 1990. Why study traditional agriculture? Pages 551-564. In: C Ronald Carroll, John H Vandermeer, Peter Rosset (editors). Agroecology. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, 641 pages.

Keywords: the nature of traditional knowledge, knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP), knowledge about the environment, biological folk taxonomies, examples of soil, space, water and vegetation

management systems used by traditional agriculturalists, farming practices, the experimental nature of traditional knowledge