Curry Helen Anne Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction 9780520307681

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Автор: Curry Helen Anne
Название: Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction
ISBN: 9780520307681
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

История Америк

Питание и общество

Охрана окружающей среды

Производство продуктов питания и напитков

Агрономия и растениеводство

ISBN-10: 0520307682
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 25.01.2022
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 33 b-w illustrations
Размер: 234 x 155 x 25
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Industrial agriculture and the crisis of extinction
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity.

Many people worry that were losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect fruits, grains, and vegetables they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative that concerns the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in Mexico and the United States to uncover this hidden narrative and show how it shaped the conservation strategies adopted by scientists, states, and citizens.

In Endangered Maize, historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks that farmers and researchers have considered essential to maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to preserve diversity in one of the worlds most important crops, Curry reveals how those who sought to protect native, traditional, and heritage crops forged their methods around the expectation that social, political, and economic transformations would eliminate diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to protect and preserve crop diversity.

Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction, Curry Helen Anne