1st Edition
Saving the Seed Genetic diversity and European agriculture
By Renee Vellve
Copyright 1992
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
Tables, Graphs and Boxes
List of Acronyms
About this Book
Foreword by Jaap Hardon, Director, CGN Netherlands
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
CAP: Conservation or Production?
Investing in Diversity
Finding the Support
ANNEXES:
1. The Genes in the Bank
2. Addresses and Contacts
3. Selected Reading
Notes
Index
Biography
Vellve, Renee
