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

著者: Gary Paul Nabhan
出版商: Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, ©2009.
版本/格式:   图书 : 传记 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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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, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and  再读一些...
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附加的形体格式: Online version:
Nabhan, Gary Paul.
Where our food comes from.
Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009
(OCoLC)607560148
Online version:
Nabhan, Gary Paul.
Where our food comes from.
Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009
(OCoLC)607844206
提及的人: N I Vavilov
材料类型: 传记, 互联网资源
文件类型: 书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者: Gary Paul Nabhan
ISBN: 9781597263993 1597263990 9781610910033 1610910036
OCLC号码: 226036948
描述: xxiii, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
内容: 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.
其他题名: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine
责任: Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Ken Wilson.
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Shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. This book reveals just how much diversity has already been lost.  再读一些...

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"A riveting account of an extraordinary Russian plant scientist who traveled five continents in search of crop diversity and its importance in staving off famine, told by a master scientist and 再读一些...

 
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