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Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine / Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Ken Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2009.Description: xxiii, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781597263993 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1597263990 (cloth : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 581.6/32 22
LOC classification:
  • QK46.5.D58 N33 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
The art museum and the seed bank--The hunger artist and the horn of plenty--Melting glaciers and waves of grain: the Pamirs--Drought and the decline of variety: the Po Valley--From breadbasket to basket case: the Levant--Date palm oases and desert crops: the Maghreb--Finding food in famine's wake: Ethiopia--Apples and boomtown growth: Kazakhstan--Rediscovering America and surviving the Dust Bowl: the U.S. Southwest--Logged forests and lost seeds: the Sierra Madre--Deep into the tropical forests of the Amazon--The last expedition.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The art museum and the seed bank--The hunger artist and the horn of plenty--Melting glaciers and waves of grain: the Pamirs--Drought and the decline of variety: the Po Valley--From breadbasket to basket case: the Levant--Date palm oases and desert crops: the Maghreb--Finding food in famine's wake: Ethiopia--Apples and boomtown growth: Kazakhstan--Rediscovering America and surviving the Dust Bowl: the U.S. Southwest--Logged forests and lost seeds: the Sierra Madre--Deep into the tropical forests of the Amazon--The last expedition.

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