A crisis is looming: To feed our growing population, we’ll need to double food production. Yet crop yields aren’t increasing fast enough, and climate change and new diseases threaten the limited varieties we’ve come to depend on for food. Luckily we still have the seeds and breeds to ensure our future food supply—but we must take steps to save them.
By Charles Siebert
"In the United States an estimated 90 percent of our historic fruit and vegetable varieties have vanished."
"Experts estimate that we have lost more than half of the world's food varieties over the past century."
"Yet the best hope for securing food's future may depend on our ability to preserve the locally cultivated foods of the past."
"Perhaps the most precious and endangered resource is the knowledge stored in farmers' minds."
No comments:
Post a Comment