Saving Seeds: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Native American Seed Savers, and Problems of Property
To put it simply, seeds are the essence of life. Without their varied yields, the earth would have no agriculture, no livestock, no food systems, no ecological stability. In all shapes, sizes, and distributions, seeds are genetic powerhouses that store life's codes; they are as essential a reso...
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ftunivermont:oai:scholarworks.uvm.edu:fss2014-1006 2023-07-02T03:33:49+02:00 Saving Seeds: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Native American Seed Savers, and Problems of Property Breen, Sheryl D. 2014-06-17T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fss2014/5 https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2015.052.016 https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/context/fss2014/article/1006/viewcontent/2014_section1_Breen__postprint_.pdf https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/context/fss2014/article/1006/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/2014_section1_Breen__abstract_.pdf https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/context/fss2014/article/1006/filename/1/type/additional/viewcontent/2014_section1_Breen__video_.mp4 unknown UVM ScholarWorks https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fss2014/5 doi:10.5304/jafscd.2015.052.016 https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/context/fss2014/article/1006/viewcontent/2014_section1_Breen__postprint_.pdf https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/context/fss2014/article/1006/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/2014_section1_Breen__abstract_.pdf https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/context/fss2014/article/1006/filename/1/type/additional/viewcontent/2014_section1_Breen__video_.mp4 Food Systems Summit 2014 Biosecurity Food Science text 2014 ftunivermont https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2015.052.016 2023-06-13T18:29:39Z To put it simply, seeds are the essence of life. Without their varied yields, the earth would have no agriculture, no livestock, no food systems, no ecological stability. In all shapes, sizes, and distributions, seeds are genetic powerhouses that store life's codes; they are as essential a resource as the water and soil at nourish them. Nonetheless, mounting evidence demonstrates steady erosion of the seed biodiversity necessary for viable food systems. Some seed varieties have been unable to adapt as habitats change or shrink, non- commercial seed-saving techniques have disappeared along with community elders, and a relatively small number of hybrid and transgenic commodity crop varieties – none of which yield useful seeds – dominate global agriculture while the botanical populations of historic landraces and their wild cousins decline. Political dangers abound as well; war and cial rest have decimated seed banks in Afghanistan, for example, and it is feared that some unique local varieties from other locations may have been permanently lost. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fss2014/1006/thumbnail.jpg Text Svalbard The University of Vermont: ScholarWorks @ UVM Svalbard Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 27 38 |
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To put it simply, seeds are the essence of life. Without their varied yields, the earth would have no agriculture, no livestock, no food systems, no ecological stability. In all shapes, sizes, and distributions, seeds are genetic powerhouses that store life's codes; they are as essential a resource as the water and soil at nourish them. Nonetheless, mounting evidence demonstrates steady erosion of the seed biodiversity necessary for viable food systems. Some seed varieties have been unable to adapt as habitats change or shrink, non- commercial seed-saving techniques have disappeared along with community elders, and a relatively small number of hybrid and transgenic commodity crop varieties – none of which yield useful seeds – dominate global agriculture while the botanical populations of historic landraces and their wild cousins decline. Political dangers abound as well; war and cial rest have decimated seed banks in Afghanistan, for example, and it is feared that some unique local varieties from other locations may have been permanently lost. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fss2014/1006/thumbnail.jpg |
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