Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity.
Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past …

Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160
countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to …

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The genetic variability available for selection is the raw material for crop improvement.
However, the process of domestication itself restricts the range of genetic variation, which …

This compelling book explores the intimate connections between people and plants,
agriculture and cooking, and the practical work of building local food networks and …

Maize is one of the most important food crops in the world and, together with rice and wheat,
provides at least 30% of the food calories to more than 4.5 billion people in 94 developing …

Although man does not cause variability and cannot even prevent it, he can select, preserve,
and accumulate the variations given to him by the hand of nature almost in any way which …

It was through control of the shattering of wild seeds that humans first domesticated plants.
Now control over those very plants threatens to shatter the world's food supply, as loss of …

Despite their success in boosting cereals production overall, the Green Revolution programs
of the 1950s and 1960s were often criticized for failing to achieve their declared aim of …

As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate, the loss of plant species poses
a threat seemingly less visible than the loss of animals but in many ways more critical. In this …