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

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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 scapegoat, Vavilov had traveled over five continents,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nabhan, Gary Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2009.
Temas:
Vavilov, N. I. > (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich), > 1887-1943.
Vavilov, N. I. > (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich), > 1887-1943
Centers of plant diversity.
Plant collecting.
Botanical specimens > Collection and preservation.
Food crops > Germplasm resources > Collection and preservation.
Plant collectors.
Centres de diversité végétale.
Plantes > Collectionneurs et collections.
Botanique > Spécimens > Collections et conservation.
Cultures vivrières > Ressources génétiques > Collections et conservation.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Plant collectors
Plant collecting
Centers of plant diversity
Botanical specimens > Collection and preservation
Nahrungspflanzen
Ackerbau
Landwirtschaft
Samenbank > Pflanzenbau
Biodiversität
Hungersnot
Ernährung
Forschungsreise
Växter > geografisk utbredning > historia.
Nyttoväxter > historia.
Etnobotanik > historia.
Svält > historia.
Biologisk mångfald.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 and desert crops: the Maghreb
  • Finding food in famine's wake: Ethiopia
  • Apples and boomtown growth: Kazakhstan
  • Rediscovering America and surviving the Dust Bowl: the U.S. Southwest
  • Logged forests and lost seeds: the Sierra Madre
  • Deep into the tropical forests of the Amazon
  • The last expedition.

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