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The difficulty of applying the concept of diversity to empirical research can be mitigated by empirical specificity. By applying it to the particular question of how cropping patterns in a community within the food supply hinterland of Ibadan have changed over twenty years of increasing market orientation one can both illuminate agricultural dynamics and also subject the concept of diversity to critique. This Nigerian case study argues that individual farmers have developed more weighted ('specialised') production patterns, but differently from one another, so that the community as a whole has retained a similar diversity profile to that of the past. Yoruba concepts and practices with respect to individuation and social diversity should be at the heart of an understanding of these patterns of change.

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