Where our food comes from : retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine / Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Ken Wilson.

• The art museum and the seed bank -- The hunger artist and the horn of plenty -- Melting glaciers and waves of grain: the Pamirs -- Drought and the decline of variety: the Po Valley -- From breadbasket to basket case: the Levant -- Date palm oases and desert crops: the Maghreb -- Finding food in famine's wake: Ethiopia -- Apples and boomtown growth: Kazakhstan -- Rediscovering America and surviving the Dust Bowl: the U.S. Southwest -- Logged forests and lost seeds: the Sierra Madre -- Deep into the tropical forests of the Amazon -- The last expedition.

Ämnesord

Växtgeografi  (sao)

Biologisk mångfald  (sao)

Växter  -- historia (sao)

Centers of plant diversity.  (LCSH)

Plant collecting.  (LCSH)

Botanical specimens  -- Collection and preservation. (LCSH)

Food crops  -- Germplasm resources -- Collection and preservation. (LCSH)

Nyttoväxter  -- historia (sao)

Etnobotanik  -- historia (sao)

Svält  -- historia (sao)

Biodiversity  (LCSH)

Phytogeography  (LCSH)

Personnamn

Vavilov, N. I. (Nikolaĭ Ivanovich), 1887-1943.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Uf:k Botanik: historia

Uh:k Miljöfrågor och naturskydd: historia

Ufab Nyttoväxter

Klassifikation

581.6/32 (DDC)

Uf:k (kssb/8)

Uh:k (kssb/8)

Ufab (kssb/8)