Seeds of the Earth
Title | Seeds of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick R. Mooney |
Publisher | Inter Pares for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation and the International Coalition for Development Action |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Gene banks, Plant |
ISBN |
The 'Gene-Rich' and the 'Gene-Poor'. Genetic Erosin. Genetic Conservation. The Green Revolution. The Seed Revolution. The New Seedsmen. The Implications of Restrictive Varietal Legislation. Biases in Corporate Breeding. Learing form Corporate Experience.
Seeds of the Earth
Title | Seeds of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | P. R. Mooney |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1979 |
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Seeds of Earth
Title | Seeds of Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cobley |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 504 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
First contact was not supposed to be like this. The first intelligent species to encounter Mankind attacked without warning and swarmed locust-like through the solar system. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the savage invasion, Earth's last, desperate roll of the dice was to send out three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. Earth may perish but the human race would live on . . . somewhere. 150 years later, the human colony on the planet Darien has established a new world for Humanity and forged a peaceful relationship with the planet's indigenous race, the scholarly, enigmatic Uvovo. But there are secrets buried beneath the surface of Darien's forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient forerunner races at the dawn of galactic civilisation. . .
Seeds of the Earth
Title | Seeds of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick R. Mooney |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Germplasm resources, Plant |
ISBN | 9780969014911 |
Seeds of the Earth
Title | Seeds of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick R. Mooney |
Publisher | Publicado por Inter Pares para el Canadian Council for International Co-operation y la International Coalition for Development Action |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Gene banks, Plant |
ISBN | 9780969014928 |
The Profit of the Earth
Title | The Profit of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Courtney Fullilove |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2017-04-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 022645486X |
While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as Courtney Fullilove shows, is that seeds are inherently political objects transformed by the ways they are gathered, preserved, distributed, regenerated, and improved. In The Profit of the Earth, Fullilove unearths the history of American agricultural development and of seeds as tools and talismans put in its service. Organized into three thematic parts, The Profit of the Earth is a narrative history of the collection, circulation, and preservation of seeds. Fullilove begins with the political economy of agricultural improvement, recovering the efforts of the US Patent Office and the nascent US Department of Agriculture to import seeds and cuttings for free distribution to American farmers. She then turns to immigrant agricultural knowledge, exploring how public and private institutions attempting to boost midwestern wheat yields drew on the resources of willing and unwilling settlers. Last, she explores the impact of these cereal monocultures on biocultural diversity, chronicling a fin-de-siècle Ohio pharmacist’s attempt to source Purple Coneflower from the diminishing prairie. Through these captivating narratives of improvisation, appropriation, and loss, Fullilove explores contradictions between ideologies of property rights and common use that persist in national and international development—ultimately challenging readers to rethink fantasies of global agriculture’s past and future.
Les graines du monde
Title | Les graines du monde PDF eBook |
Author | Mario del Curto |
Publisher | Actes Sud Editions |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017-08-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9782330079055 |
His knowledge, tenacity and eloquence still resound in the corridors of the Saint Petersburg institute that bears his name, and his spirit continues to inspire the hundreds of researchers pursuing his work. Nikolai Vavilov anticipated the disappearance of plant diversity and within the space of a few decades through study and travel all over the world he found the means of saving it. For political and ideological reasons, Vavilov was condemned to death and left to starve in the dungeon of a Soviet prison. Gradually, on both sides of the iron curtain, his memory began to fade. One hundred years after Vavilov's first expedition, the photographer Mario Del Curto retraced his footsteps. For four years he met with those who, despite overwhelming obstacles, perpetuate Vavilov's seed prospecting, selection and conservation work in order to save the planet's staple food crops. This book is the unprecedented story of his journey to the heart of the Vavilov Institute and its twelve research stations. International specialists bring light the huge scope of the work undertaken by Vavilov and his successors.