Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction Curry Helen Anne
Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity.Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop…
Specifikacia Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction Curry Helen Anne
Charting the political, social, and environmental history of efforts to conserve crop diversity.Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect crop plants they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative about the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in
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