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Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion

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Seed diversity is crucial to the sustainability of food and
agricultural systems. Yet as Michel Pimbert’s survey of the global ‘state
of seeds’ reveals, both wild and domesticated varieties are disappearing
under an onslaught of human-driven pressures. Planetary crises—the
sixth great extinction and climate change—constitute one. Industrialized
agriculture is another: just three crops (maize, rice and wheat) currently
supply over 60% of the calories humanity obtains from food. The impacts
of this impoverishment on small and Indigenous farmers, ecosystems,
food security and human health are manifold, and understanding them
demands that we unravel a range of intermeshed social and political
factors. Disparities in wealth, gender and ethnicity, for instance, determine the way seeds are cultivated, conserved, collected and exchanged.
And the primary domains of seed governance—state, corporate and
farm—wield different, often unequal powers. By confronting these
complexities, Pimbert asserts, we can map ways of managing seeds
equitably, to support human and planetary wellbeing

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: Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2022

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XIX, 199

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English

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9783030894054

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Seeds for Diversity
Inclusion

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Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Michel Pimbert

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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89405-4

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