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:

• Issue 5: Cultivating Trees: The Evolution of Agroforestry Systems.

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).

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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