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Where Our Food Comes From

Where Our Food Comes From

Retracting Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

by Gary Paul Nabhan
2009 Quivira Conference Speaker

Contents:
  • Foreword by Ken Wilson
  • 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
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Index
$24.00
Gary Paul Nabhan