Author: Сергей Михайлович БукасовPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Cultivated Plants of Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia
Author: Сергей Михайлович БукасовPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Origin and Geography of Cultivated Plants
Author: N. I. VavilovPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521404273
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A collection of all of Vavgilov's works on the origin and geography of cultivated plant species.
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Where Our Food Comes From
Author: Gary Paul NabhanPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597265179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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.
Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
Author: R. BüttnerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540410171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 3698
Book Description
With contributions by numerous experts
Advances in Genetics
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080567975
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Advances in Genetics
Cotton Literature
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Cotton Literature
Author: Emily L. DayCurso Internacional de PRODUCCION Y MEJORAMIENTO DE LA PAPA dictado en la Peru del 13 de Marzo al 12 de Mayo de 1956
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Bibliography on the Agriculture of the American Indians
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The scope of this bibliography is delineated in the table of contents and is comprehensive insofar as practicable.