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The continuing future of our food will depend on tiny seeds in orchards and areas around the world. In 1943, one of the first ever to recognize this truth, the fantastic botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet jail. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov experienced journeyed over five continents, collecting thousands of seeds in order to outline the old centers of agricultural variety and guard against widespread cravings for food. Now, another exceptional scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps.
In Where Our Food ORIGINATES FROM, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves collectively Vavilov’s incredible story along with his own expeditions to Globe’s richest agricultural panoramas and the cultures that seem them. Retracing Vavilov’s course from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he attracts a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and just why they matter.
In his vacations, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade plans, genetic executive, and lack of traditional knowledge are intimidating our food supply. Through discussions with local farmers, sessions to local outdoor marketplaces, and contrast of his own observations in eleven countries to those registered in Vavilov’s journals and photos, Nabhan reveals the amount of diversity has
recently been lost. But he also shows what resilient farmers and experts in many regions are doing to save lots of the remaining living riches of the world.
It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who put in his life working to foster nutrition, eventually died from insufficient it. In showing his tale, Where Our Food ORIGINATES FROM brings alive the intricate interactions among culture, politics, the land, and the continuing future of the world’s food.
