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Published on: 2008-09-12
Released on: 2008-09-12
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The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps.   In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter.   In his travels, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. Through discussions with local farmers, visits to local outdoor markets, and comparison of his own observations in eleven countries to those recorded in Vavilov’s journals and photos, Nabhan reveals just how much diversity has already been lost. But he also shows what resilient farmers and scientists in many regions are doing to save the remaining living riches of our world.   It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who spent his life working to foster nutrition, ultimately died from lack of it. In telling his story, Where Our Food Comes From brings to life the intricate relationships among culture, politics, the land, and the future of the world’s food. Food Tank: The Think Tank For Food Kip Tom Chairman of Tom Farms is speaking at the third annual D.C. Food Tank Summit Lets Build a Better Food Policy which will be hosted in partnership with ... 9 Must Read Books on Eating Well : TreeHugger While we've all been eating our entire lives recently there has been a huge increase in awareness of where our food comes from how it's produced and how ... Banking on Wild Relatives to Feed the World - Gastronomica In 2013 an ambitious new project was launched to put wild relatives at the center of adapting agriculture to climate change. Led by the Trust in partnership with the ... Tabbouleh - Wikipedia Il Tabbouleh o Tabul (in arabo: ; anche taboleh o tab(b) uli) una pietanza araba del Vicino Oriente appartenente alla cucina levantina. Nikoli Vavlov - Wikipedia la enciclopedia libre Nikolai Vavilov. ndice Internacional de Nombres de las Plantas (IPNI). Real Jardn Botnico de Kew Herbario de la Universidad de Harvard y Herbario nacional ... 25 (13 ) 1887 ... Tabbouleh - Wikipedia Tabbouleh (Arabic: tablah; also tabouleh or tab(b)ouli) is a Levantine vegetarian dish (sometimes considered a salad) traditionally made of ... Nikolai Vavilov - Wikipedia Further reading. Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan 2008 ISBN 978-1-59726-399-3; Delone N. L. (1988).
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