Gary Paul Nabhan is a world-renowned ethnobiologist, conservationist, and essayist. The author of Why Some Like It Hot, Coming Home to Eat, and many other books and articles, he has been honored with a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and The John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. Founder and facilitator of the Renewing America's Food Traditions collaborative, he is currently a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. See www.garynabhan.com to track his lecture and photo exhibit schedules.
"Gary Nabhan's travels in the footsteps of the brilliant Nikolay
Vavilov make for fascinating reading. But this book is more than a
journey into the past; it is look at the future. Vavilov's
compelling ideas about famine and Nabhan's exploration of current
threats to our food supply--from climate change to loss of
biodiversity--make Where Our Food Comes From a must-read."--Deborah
Madison, author of "Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from
America's Farmers' Markets"
"Where Our Food Comes From is a marked critique of the worldwide
simplification of agricultural systems. It pins its hopes on local,
traditional agriculture and is sceptical of top-down approaches to
increasing food production, such as calls for another 'green
revolution'."-- "Nature"
"Where Our Food Comes From is an urgent reminder that we must work
to save not only the seeds that feed us but the farmers who grow
and select them--those 'vernacular plant breeders' on whom the
long-term vitality of those seeds and a diverse agriculture
depends."-- "The Scientist"
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