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From Agriculture to Culture

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The editors would like to thank the following people for making this book possible:

Alicia Calisaya
Oscar Chávez
Agustín Quispe
Lucio Mamani
Guillermo Chui
Lucía Sumi
Ignacia Ramos
Ramón Chui
Simona Chui,
Aimara farmers who opened up their homes to us for the Jatha Katu celebration

Germán Coronado Tito Pedro Donasco
Inés Ayna
Lourdes Colorado
Gerardo Huatta Huatta,
who shared ritual offerings to Mother Earth on the shores of Lake Titicaca

Venancio Calderón,
who helped us get to know the members of one of the ayllus on the Island of Taquile

The villagers of Ampay,
in Cusco, for sharing their joy and skill in working the land

The community of San José de Aymará,
for their hospitality during the harvest

Mananvendra Pratop Singh, Krishan Singh and Prashan Sharma’s generous family in Himachal Pradesh, who showed exemplary richness of spirit

The Gicheru and Ngacha families of noble Kikuyu farmers in Kenya

The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Italy

As well as:

Jesús Alcázar
Carlos Arbizu
Néstor Arce
Candelaria Atalaya
Ima Garmendia
René Gomez
Peter Ewell
Cecilia Ferreyra
Ximena Ganoza
Juan Carlos Godenzi
Jeff Hall
Sarath Ilangatileke
Víctor Iriarte
Berhane Kiflewahid
Cecilia Laffose
Bernardino Larico
Griselda Lay
Carlos Niño-Neira
Peter Ojambo
Víctor Otazú
Joe Pavek
Guido Pilares
Jorge Piqueras
Gonzalo Rojas
Alberto Salas
Rosa Salazar
Javier Silva
Aldo Tang
Hiroyasu Tomoeda
Elsa Valdivia
Roberto Valdivia
Rubén Vera
Jorge Villacorta
Marcos Yauri Monteros

And all of the other colleagues and friends who so generously shared their time, knowledge and enthusiasm.

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