Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 1977
Panel: A
Discipline: Geography

Emeritus Professor Harold Brookfield

Visiting Fellow
Department of Anthropology
RSPAS
Australian National University

Brookfield, Harold Chillingworth. BA, PhD (London)

Emeritus Professor Harold Brookfield was Principal Scientific Coordinator of the United Nations University Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change, funded by the Global Environmental Facility until 2002. He is now joint editor for the same project. He has recently edited two books arising from the project.

His recent research includes:

  • work on diversity among the practices of small farmers in developing countries in the tropics and sub-tropics
  • work on farmer-driven change in agriculture

Key publications

  • (2003) Agrodiversity: learning from farmers across the world. Tokyo: United Nations Univdersity Press.
  • (2002) Cultivating Biodiversity. London: ITDG Publications.
  • Harold Brookfield (2001) Exploring Agrodiversity. New York: Columbia University Press.


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