Seeds are life. I knew that from childhood. I observed my father at harvest saving wheat, barley and lentils for sowing later in the year. Saving seeds is still alive but it is under stress. Agricultural industrialization includes the industrialization of seeds. Now, in the US, we have this unbelievable reality where pesticide companies are becoming seed companies!
This mechanization of almost everything is causing chaos in rural America and seed protection. Experts say crop genetic diversity is in hard times, which puts agriculture also in hard times.
I reviewed two books on seeds:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evaggelos-vallianatos/seeds-and-the-future-of-l_b_12219394.html
Both books, one by the Japanese civil-society organization, Shumei International, and the Indian Navdanya, and the other written by an American agronomist, Cary Fowler, warn we better mend our ways or we are for a likely massive hunger, perhaps unimaginable catastrophes.
The Japanese-Indian book urges all of us to find a way to reconcile our differences with the natural world and learn how to live in peace and harmony with nature. The other book is about protecting a good sample of unmodified seeds from calamities, even nuclear war.
Time has come to rethink our failed agricultural policies and rebuild rural America. These two books are an inspiration to action.
This mechanization of almost everything is causing chaos in rural America and seed protection. Experts say crop genetic diversity is in hard times, which puts agriculture also in hard times.
I reviewed two books on seeds:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evaggelos-vallianatos/seeds-and-the-future-of-l_b_12219394.html
Both books, one by the Japanese civil-society organization, Shumei International, and the Indian Navdanya, and the other written by an American agronomist, Cary Fowler, warn we better mend our ways or we are for a likely massive hunger, perhaps unimaginable catastrophes.
The Japanese-Indian book urges all of us to find a way to reconcile our differences with the natural world and learn how to live in peace and harmony with nature. The other book is about protecting a good sample of unmodified seeds from calamities, even nuclear war.
Time has come to rethink our failed agricultural policies and rebuild rural America. These two books are an inspiration to action.
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