Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.34 (940 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1597265144 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 433 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-05-13 |
Language | : | English |
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It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who spent his life working to foster nutrition, ultimately died from lack of it. 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 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. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s ext
It pins its hopes on local, traditional agriculture and is sceptical of top-down approaches to increasing food production, such as calls for another 'green revolution'.". "Where Our Food Comes From is a marked critique of the worldwide simplification of agricultural systems
know where our food comes from. Nicola This is a fascinating read and is for anyone moved to educate themselves on the preservation of the diversity of our food sources. What is compelling is the tribute and tracking of the intrepid Nickolay Vavilov who in Russia in the 1920s served his country and huma. While making sense of the spread of agriculture, our While making sense of the spread of agriculture, our exploring writer Gary Paul Nabhan comes across melting glaciers in the Tajikistan Pamir mountains, near Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains. Other chapters explore Mediterranean Po River flood lands, ancient Levan. An Excellent Story About An Amazing Man For those who picked up this book thinking it was another timely tome taking advantage of the "locivore" movement, you will be disappointed. This book is much more than that and I would have gladly given it An Excellent Story About An Amazing Man J. Canestrino For those who picked up this book thinking it was another timely tome taking advantage of the "locivore" movement, you will be disappointed. This book is much more than that and I would have gladly given it 4.5 stars if I could have, having only a couple of reserva. .5 stars if I could have, having only a couple of reserva