Featured: Threatened languages and agrobiodiversity

Peter Matthews weighs in on the issue of whether threatened language means threatened agrobiodiversity:

I would expect that the key linguistic indicator is not threat level, but speaking population size – not too large (likely to be associated with monocultural production systems) and not too small (likely to have a very restricted geographical range and knowledge of a relatively limited range of crops and wild plant resources).

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