Seeds of Resistance av Mark Schapiro

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<B>"<I>Seeds of Resistance</I> is a wake-up call. With vivid and memorable stories, Mark Schapiro tells us how seeds are at the frontlines of our epic battle for healthy food.” —Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard</B><BR><BR> Three-quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 were driven to extinction by 2015. In <I>Seeds of Resistance: The Fight for Food Diversity on Our Climate-Ravaged Planet</I>, investigative journalist Mark Schapiro takes us to the frontlines of the struggle over the seeds that remain—a struggle with some of the world’s biggest agri-chemical companies that will determine the long-term security of our food supply. <br/> <br/> His investigation unravels the stories of seed survival strategies and why it matters that more than half of all commercially traded seeds are under the control of three multinational agri-chemical companies—producing chemical de