Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine / / Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Ken Wilson
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| Autore: |
Nabhan Gary Paul
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| Titolo: |
Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine / / Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Ken Wilson
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington [D.C.], : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 581.6/32 |
| Soggetto topico: | Centers of plant diversity |
| Plant collecting | |
| Botanical specimens - Collection and preservation | |
| Food crops - Germplasm resources - Collection and preservation | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-210) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Ch. 1: The Art Museum and the Seed Bank; Ch. 2: The Hunger Artist and the Horn of Plenty; Ch. 3: Melting Glaciers and Waves of Grain: The Pamirs; Ch. 4: Drought and the Decline of Variety: The Po Valley; Ch. 5: From Breadbasket to Basket Case: The Levant; Ch. 6: Date Palm Oases and Desert Crops: The Maghreb; Ch. 7: Finding Food in Famine's Wake: Ethiopia; Ch. 8: Apples and Boomtown Growth: Kazakhstan; Ch. 9: Rediscovering America and Surviving the Dust Bowl: The U.S. Southwest; Ch. 10: Logged Forests and Lost Seeds: The Sierra Madre |
| Ch. 11: Deep in the Tropical Forests of the AmazonCh. 12: The Last Expedition; Epilogue; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Fr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Where our food comes from |
| ISBN: | 1-59726-517-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816173903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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