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000019122 1001_ $$aFowler, Cary,$$eauthor.
000019122 24510 $$aShattering :$$bfood, politics, and the loss of genetic diversity /$$cCary Fowler and Pat Mooney.
000019122 264_1 $$aTucson :$$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$$cc1990.
000019122 300__ $$axvi, 278 pages :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c24 cm
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000019122 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000019122 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index.
000019122 5050_ $$aOrigins of agriculture -- Development of diversity -- Value of diversity -- Genetic erosion: losing diversity -- Rise of the genetics supply industry -- Enter biotechnology -- Global conservation begins -- Politics of genetic resource control -- Responsibility and commitment.
000019122 520__ $$a"It was through control of the shattering of wild seeds that humans first domesticated plants. Now control over those very plants threatens to shatter the world's food supply, as loss of genetic diversity sets the stage for widespread hunger.Large-scale agriculture has come to favor uniformity in food crops. More than 7,000 U.S. apple varieties once grew in American orchards; 6,000 of them are no longer available. Every broccoli variety offered through seed catalogs in 1900 has now disappeared. As the international genetics supply industry absorbs seed companies--with nearly one thousand takeovers since 1970--this trend toward uniformity seems likely to continue; and as third world agriculture is brought in line with international business interests, the gene pools of humanity's most basic foods are threatened.The consequences are more than culinary. Without the genetic diversity from which farmers traditionally breed for resistance to diseases, crops are more susceptible to the spread of pestilence. Tragedies like the Irish Potato Famine may be thought of today as ancient history; yet the U.S. corn blight of 1970 shows that technologically based agribusiness is a breeding ground for disaster.Shattering reviews the development of genetic diversity over 10,000 years of human agriculture, then exposes its loss in our lifetime at the hands of political and economic forces. The possibility of crisis is real; this book shows that it may not be too late to avert it."--Amazon.com.
000019122 650_0 $$aFood crops$$xBreeding.
000019122 650_6 $$aCultures vivrières$$xAmélioration.
000019122 650_0 $$aGermplasm resources, Plant.
000019122 650_4 $$aNEW VARIETIES OF PLANTS : ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
000019122 650_6 $$aPlantes$$xRessources génétiques.
000019122 651_0 $$aAmerica$$xCommerce$$xLaw and legislation.
000019122 7001_ $$aMooney, P. R.$$q(Patrick R.),$$d1947-
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