Selected Publications
 

Soleri, D., D.A. Cleveland and F. Aragón Cuevas. (2008) Food globalization and local diversity: the case of tejate. Current Anthropology 49(2):281-290. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE; Online text with SUPPLEMENTS (PDF version of SUPPLEMENTS); PRESS RELEASE (PDF version of PRESS RELEASE) (© 2008 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research).

Soleri, D., D.A. Cleveland, G.E. Glasgow, S.H. Sweeney, F. Aragón Cuevas, H. Ríos Labrada and M.R. Fuentes Lopez (2008) Testing assumptions underlying economic research on transgenic food crops for Third World farmers: evidence from Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico. Ecological Economics 67(4):667-682. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2008 Elsevier B.V.).

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (2007)  Extending Darwin’s analogy: bridging differences in concepts of selection between farmers, biologists, and plant breeders. Economic Botany 61(2):121-136. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2007 The New York Botanical Garden Press).

Soleri, D. and D.A. Cleveland (2007) Tejate: Theobroma cacao and T. bicolor in a traditional beverage from Oaxaca, Mexico. Food and Foodways 15(1-2):107-118. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2007 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC).

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (2007) Farmer knowledge and scientist knowledge in sustainable agricultural development: ontology, epistemology and praxis. In Local Science versus Global Science: Approaches To Indigenous Knowledge in International Development. Pp. 211-229. P. Sillitoe, editor. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2007 Paul Sillitoe).

Soleri, D., D.A. Cleveland and F. Aragón Cuevas (2006) Transgenic crops and crop varietal diversity: the case of maize in Mexico. BioScience 56(6):503-513. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2006 American Institute of Biological Sciences). Response from Soleri and colleagues [to Ortiz-García et al. letter]. BioScience 56(9):709-710. LETTER AS PDF FILE (© 2006 American Institute of Biological Sciences).

Lacy, S., D.A. Cleveland and D. Soleri (2006) Farmer choice of sorghum varieties in southern Mali. Human Ecology 34(3):331-353. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.).

Cleveland, D.A. (2006) What kind of social science does the CGIAR, and the world, need? Culture & Agriculture 28:4-9. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2006 American Anthropological Association).

Soleri, D. and D.A. Cleveland (2006) Transgenic maize and Mexican maize diversity: Risky synergy? Agriculture and Human Values 23(1):27-31. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2006 Springer).

Cleveland, D.A., D. Soleri, F. Aragón Cuevas, J. Crossa and P. Gepts (2005) Detecting (trans)gene flow to landraces in centers of crop origin: lessons from the case of maize in Mexico. Environmental Biosafety Research 4(4):197-208. ABSTRACT (English/español); ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2006 ISBR, EDP Sciences).

Soleri, D., D.A. Cleveland, F. Aragón Cuevas, H. Ríos Labrada, M.R. Fuentes Lopez, and S.H. Sweeney (2005) Understanding the potential impact of transgenic crops in traditional agriculture: maize farmers' perspectives in Cuba, Guatemala & Mexico. Environmental Biosafety Research 4(3):141-166. ABSTRACT (English/español); ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2006 ISBR, EDP Sciences).

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (2005) Debate over a GM rice trial in China. [In Letters] Science 310:231-232. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2006 AAAS).

Cleveland, D.A., and D. Soleri, (2005) Rethinking the risk management process for genetically engineered crop varieties in small-scale, traditionally based agriculture. Ecology and Society 10(1): 9. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss1/art9/. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2005 the authors).

Soleri, D. and D.A. Cleveland (2005) Scenarios as a tool for eliciting and understanding farmers' biological knowledge. Field Methods 17(3):283-301. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2005 Sage Publications).

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (2004) Farmers' rights and GE crops. Anthropology News 45(4):7-8. ARTICLE AS HTM FILE (© 2004 American Anthropological Association).

Soleri, D. and D.A. Cleveland (2004) Farmer selection and conservation of crops. Encyclopedia of Plant & Crop Science. Pp. 433-438. R.M. Goodman, ed. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc. (View introduction at http://www.dekker.com/sdek/abstract~db=enc~content=a713575966). ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2004 Marcel Dekker, Inc.).

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri, editors (2002) Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Integrating Knowledge and Practice. Oxon, UK: CAB International. ABSTRACT and CONTENTS.

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (2002) Introduction: farmers, scientists and plant breeding: knowledge, practice,and the possibilities for collaboration, in Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Integrating Knowledge and Practice. Pp. 1-18. D.A. Cleveland and D. Soleri, eds. Oxon, UK: CAB International. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2002 CAB International)

Soleri, D., D.A. Cleveland, S.E. Smith, S. Ceccarelli, S. Grando, R.B. Rana, D. Rijal, and H. Rios L. (2002) Understanding farmers' knowledge as the basis for collaboration with plant breeders: Methodological cevelopment and examples from ongoing research in Mexico, Syria, Cuba, and Nepal. In Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Integrating Knowledge and Practice. Pp. 19-60. D.A. Cleveland and D. Soleri, eds. Oxon, UK: CAB International. ABSTRACT.

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (2002) Indigenous and scientific knowledge of plant breeding: Similarities, differences, and implications for collaboration. In Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge. ASA Monographs, Vol. 39. Pp. 206-234. P. Sillitoe, A. Bicker, and J. Pottier, editors. London: Routledge. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2002 Association of Social Anthropologists & the authors).

Cleveland, D.A. (2001) Is Plant Breeding Science Objective Truth or Social Construction? The Case of Yield Stability. Agriculture and Human Values 18(3):250-271. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (corrected figure) (© 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers.)

Soleri, D. and D.A. Cleveland (2001) Farmers' Genetic Perceptions Regarding Their Crop Populations: An Example with Maize in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. Economic Botany 55(1):106-128. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2001 The New York Botanical Garden Press).

Cleveland, D.A., D.Soleri, and S.E. Smith (2000) A Biological Framework for Understanding Farmers' Plant Breeding. Economic Botany 54(3):377-394. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2000 The New York Botanical Garden Press).

Soleri, D., S.E. Smith and D.A. Cleveland (2000) Evaluating the Potential for Farmer and Plant Breeder Collaboration: A Case Study of Farmer Maize Selection in Oaxaca, Mexico. Euphytica 116(1): 41-57. ABSTRACT; Full text from Euphytica: http://www.wkap.nl/oasis.htm/265106. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers).

Cleveland, D.A. (2000) Globalization and Anthropology: Expanding the Options. Human Organization 59(3):370-374. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 2000 Society for Applied Anthropology).

Cleveland, D.A., D.Soleri and S.E. Smith. (1999) Farmer Plant Breeding from a Biological Perspective: Implications for Collaborative Plant Breeding. CIMMYT Economics Working Paper 99-10. v, 32 pp. Mexico, D.F.: CIMMYT. Full text: http://www.cimmyt.cgiar.org/Research/economics/map/research_results/working_papers/pdf/EWP%2099_10.pdf.

Cleveland, D.A. (1998) Indian Agriculture, United States Agriculture, and Sustainable Agriculture: Science and Advocacy. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22(3):13-29. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE.

Smale, M., D. Soleri, D.A. Cleveland, D. Louette, E.B. Rice, J.-L. Blanco, and A. Aguirre. (1998) Collaborative Plant Breeding as an Incentive for On-Farm Conservation of Genetic Resources: Economic Issues from Studies in Mexico, In Farmers, Gene Banks, and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice. M. Smale, editor. Pp. 239-257. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ABSTRACT.

Cleveland, D.A. (1998) Balancing on a Planet: Toward an Agricultural Anthropology for the 21st Century. Human Ecology 26(2):323-340. ABSTRACT; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1998 Plenum Publishing Corporation).

Cleveland, D.A. and S.C. Murray (1997) The World's Crop Genetic Resources and the Rights of Indigenous Farmers. Current Anthropology 37(4): 477-515. ABSTRACT ; ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1997 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research).

Cleveland, D.A. (1997) Are Urban Gardens an Efficient Use of Resources? Arid Lands Newsletter [University of Arizona] No. 42, article No. 4. Full text: http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln42/cleveland.html

Mabry, J. and D.A. Cleveland (1996) The Relevance of Indigenous Irrigation: A Comparative Analysis of Sustainability. In Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems. J. Mabry, editor. Pp. 227-260. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press.

Cleveland, D.A., F. Bowannie, Jr., D. Eriacho, A. Laahty, and E. Perramond (1995) Zuni Farming and United States Government Policy: The Politics of Cultural and Biological Diversity. Agriculture and Human Values 12(3):2-18. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE. (Corrected map)

Cleveland, D.A., D. Soleri, and S.E. Smith (1994) Do Folk Crop Varieties Have a Role in Sustainable Agriculture? BioScience 44:740-751. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1994 American Institute of Biological Sciences).

Soleri, D. and D.A. Cleveland, with D.Eriacho, F. Bowannie Jr., A. Laahty, and the Zuni Community (1994) Gifts from the Creator: Intellectual Property Rights and Folk Crop Varieties. In Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples, A Sourcebook. T. Greaves, editor. Pp. 21-40. Oklahoma City, OK: Society for Applied Anthropology. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1994 Society for Applied Anthropology).

Cleveland, D.A. (1994) Can Science and Advocacy Coexist? The Ethics of Sustainable Development. Anthropology News 35(3):9-10. (© 1994 American Anthropological Association)

Soleri, D. and D.A. Cleveland (1993) Hopi Crop Diversity and Change. Journal of Ethnobiology 13:203-231. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1993 Society for Ethnobiology).

Cleveland, D.A. (1991) Migration in West Africa: A Savanna Village Perspective. Africa [London] 61:222-246. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1991 Edinburgh University Press).

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (1991) Food from Dryland Gardens: An Ecological, Nutritional, and Social Approach to Small-Scale Household Food Production. xiii, 387 pp. Tucson, AZ: Center for People, Food and Environment (with support from the United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF]). A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1992. ABSTRACT and CONTENTS. Republished 2002 in CD-ROM format.

Cleveland, D.A. (1991) New Crop Varieties in a Green Revolution for Africa: Implications for Sustainability and Equity. In The Political Economy of African Famine. R.E. Downs, D.O. Kerner and S.P. Reyna, editors. Pp. 325-338. NY: Gordon & Breach.

Cleveland, D.A. (1990) Development Alternatives and the African Food Crisis. In African Food Systems In Crisis. Part Two: Contending with Change. R. Huss-Ashmore and S. Katz, editors. Pp. 181-206. NY: Gordon & Breach.

Cleveland, D.A. (1989) Developmental Stage Age Groups and African Population Structure: The Kusasi of the West African Savanna. American Anthropologist 91:401-413. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1989 American Anthropological Association).

Cleveland, D.A. and D. Soleri (1987) Household Gardens as a Development Strategy. Human Organization 46:259-270. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© 1987 Society for Applied Anthropology).

Cleveland, D.A. (1986) The Political Economy of Fertility Regulation: The Kusasi of Savanna West Africa (Ghana). In Culture and Reproduction: An Anthropological Critique of Demographic Transition Theory. W.P. Handwerker, editor. Pp. 263-293. Boulder, CO: Westview. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE (© Westview Press).

Cleveland, D.A., T.V. Orum and N. Ferguson (1985) Economic value of home vegetable gardens in an urban desert environment. HortScience 20(4):694-696. ABSTRACT. ARTICLE AS PDF FILE.