Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity
Author: Cary Fowler, Pat Mooney
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ISBN: 0816511810
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (June, 1990)
Sales Rank: 322,652
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Essential reading for everyone looking to our future.
I am novice plant lover and read this book given to me by a farmer who is saving seeds in Idaho. It is excellent reading for anyone interested in our children's future as the threat to genetic diversity happening now will affect their welfare. EVERYONE should consider saving seeds! It covers complex issues in a readable manner and is worth having in your reference home library along with information on heirloom seeds. It puts a new spin on the potatoe famine in Ireland and outlines how realistically we should be concerned about famine here and abroad. "if diversity is to be saved, it may have to be saved by amateurs." A wonderful book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Best book yet on loss of crop biodiversity
Fowler and Mooney have produced the most accessible -- and frightening -- book yet covering the ongoing loss of crop genetic diversity. You think the Irish Potato Famine was bad? We may not have seen anything yet.
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