Seeds of The World
Seeds of The World
Seeds of The World
ady lost, rendezvous with extinction, seed saving, biodiversity, world hunger
What to do with a food crops wherever we go, saving them for the future as well as
cardboard carton redistributing them to other farmers further along our route. We
will work with concerned NGOs to ensure that peasant plant
Sisters of silk
breeders' rights are protected.
Silkworms in a shoebox
School gardens See: Seed patents threaten world food resources
School composting
Trees and forests Seed resources
The Beach House fish
pond The Threatened Gene: Food, Politics, and the Loss of
HOMeR Genetic Diversity, Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney, 1991.
Vanishing seeds: "Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture --
Eco-footprint silent, rapid, inexorable -- is leading us to a rendezvous with
Eco-footprint extinction -- to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to
School and youth imagine." 270-page book provides an excellent introduction to
programs on the Web the history and geopolitics of genetic diversity. Pat Mooney is
executive director of the ETC Group, previously Rural
Education resources
Advancement Foundation International (RAFI). Download PDF
on the Web
(14 MB):
http://www.etcgroup.org/upload/publication/pdf_file/572
Contact us
"More than 90 per cent of crop varieties have disappeared from
farmers' fields." -- UK Agricultural Biodiversity Coalition
To Keith Addison
http://www.ukabc.org/
keith@journeytoforever.
org This site has good resources on seed issues and food security.
To Midori Hiraga
"One of the world's most pervasive threats to world food and
midori@journeytoforever.
livelihood security is the loss of biological diversity." --
org
Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
Homepage
http://www.grain.org/
http://journeytoforever.
org/
GRAIN is an international NGO, part
of a global movement of popular
Handmade Projects action against genetic erosion.
Tamba Publishes the excellent "Seedling"
Japan
newsletter, books and other materials,
briefings and ad hoc publications,
global trade and biodiversity in conflict, an email mailing list.
Site search. Website also in French and Spanish versions.
The Seed Exchange email list has nearly 700 members from
around the world, including university agriculture departments
and research stations. Moderated list, no advertising, members'
email information kept totally private. To subscribe send a blank
email to: seeds@nowonline.net with the word SUBSCRIBE as
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11879
Buy the book at Amazon.com: Lost Crops of Africa: Volume III:
Fruits
engineering
Dirty tricks
world hunger and shows how ordinary people can help to end it.
Thoroughly researched, good case-studies, thorough references.
Written 30 years ago, the book is as relevant today as it was
then, or even more so: a very great help in understanding the
contradictions of the food price crisis that is driving millions
more into hunger today. Buy at Amazon.com: Food First
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