Gary Paul Nabhan
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"Longtime residents of the sonoran desert, the Tohono O'odham people have spent centuries living off the land - a land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono O'odham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate balance between these people and their environment. Bringing O'odham voices to the page at every turn, he writes elegantly of how they husband scant...
2) Growing food in a hotter, drier land: lessons from desert farmers on adapting to climate uncertainty
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x, 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
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English
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"How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "global weirding." This book draws upon the wisdom and technical knowledge from desert farming traditions all around the world...
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xxiii, 225 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
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English
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The future of our food depends on seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat, 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,...
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Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century. Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us.
Agrarian and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan, the "father of the local food movement", offers a fresh, imaginative look at the parables of Jesus to bring us into...
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Français
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Sibérie, hiver 1943. Le grand botaniste russe Nikolaï Vavilov meurt de faim au goulag, victime des purges de Staline. Tragique destin pour un homme admirable qui a consacré sa vie à lutter contre la famine. Aventureux et visionnaire, Vavilov a sillonné les quatre coins du monde à la recherche des sites originels de notre biodiversité alimentaire, récoltant partout des milliers de semences pour les mettre à l'abri des destructions et de l'oubli....
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xii, 184 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements in our country's history. People of all races, faiths, and political persuasions are coming together to restore America's natural wealth: its ability to produce healthy foods. In Food from the Radical Center, Gary Nabhan tells the stories of diverse communities that are getting their hands dirty and bringing back North America's unique...