| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Earthscan library collection |
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Natural resource management ; volume 9 |
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Earthscan library collection.
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Resources for the future library collection. Natural resource management ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Tables, graphs and boxes; List of acronyms; About this book; Foreword; Introduction; 1: The making of a heritage; Taming the wild; The geography of diversity; The heritage makers; 2: Diversity's decline; Breeding uniformity; Uniformity from the lab; Erosion on the farm; The legal frames at work; 3: Genebank or bust; Banking on diversity; From the field to the fridge; The Euro 'gene scene'; Of numbers and nonsense; 4: Salvaging in silence; Conservation at the grassroots; Salvaging in silence; 5: Diversifying the future; Forging new policies |
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CAP: Conservation or production?Investing in diversity; Finding the support; Annex; I: Thegenes in the bank; 2: Addresses and contacts; 3: Selected reading; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Genetic diversity is essential to the security of agriculture. Without the availability of a wide range of plant varieties and the genetic resources they contain, crops cannot adapt to combat the ever-changing threats of pests, diseases and climatic change. Yet, with the increasing industrialisation of modern agriculture, farming has become a business which centres on a handful of new, genetically similar 'super seeds'. Plants must evolve in order to survive, but modern agriculture has replaced diversity with uniformity, and security with vulnerability. Saving the Seed trace |
| Notes |
"Earthscan publishes in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crops -- Germplasm resources.
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Gene banks, Plant.
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Crops -- Germplasm resources -- Europe
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Gene banks, Plant -- Europe
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Germplasm resources conservation.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Crops -- Germplasm resources
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Gene banks, Plant
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Germplasm resources conservation
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Institute for Environment and Development.
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| ISBN |
9781134063307 |
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113406330X |
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1315066831 |
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9781315066837 |
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