TY - BOOK ID - 136396177 TI - Where our food comes from PY - 2009 SN - 1597265179 9781597265171 9781597263993 1597263990 9781610910033 1610910036 PB - Washington, DC Island Press/Shearwater Books DB - UniCat KW - Centers of plant diversity. KW - Plant collecting. KW - Botanical specimens KW - Food crops KW - Collection and preservation. KW - Germplasm resources KW - Vavilov, N. I. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136396177 AB - The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country's famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist-and vivid storyteller-has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes Fr ER -