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Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine

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text Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine

Nabhan, Gary Paul.

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Summary
The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a s... Read more
Contents
The art museum and the seed bank -- The hunger artist and the horn of plenty -- Melting glaciers and waves of grain: the Pamirs -- Drought and the decline of variety: the Po Valley -- From breadbasket to basket case: the Levant -- Date palm oases ... Read more
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xxiii, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Island Press/Shearwater Books 2009
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 581.632 NAB in Adult Non-fiction Available

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