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Description : Seeds of Resistance 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 heahy food Alice Waters founder of Chez Panisse and

the Edible Schoolyard Three quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in were driven to extinction by In Seeds of Resistance The Fight for Food Diversity on Our Climate Ravaged Planet investigative journalist Mark Schapiro takes us to the frontlines of the struggle over the seeds that remaina struggle with some of the worlds biggest agri chemical companies that will determine the long term security of our food supply 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 muinational agri chemical companiesproducing chemical dependent uniform seeds just as climate change is profoundly aering the conditions for growing food And he dives deep into the growing movement in the United States and around the world to defy these trends and assert autonomy over locally evolved seeds that are by contrast showing high levels of resilience to the onrushing impacts of climate change He probes into the implications for our heah and for the Earths ecological heah of patented seeds and the companies that have turned them and the chemicals they require to survive into one of the worlds most valuable commodities Schapiro also a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism applies his investigative and storytelling skills to this riveting narrative from the environmentally stressed fields of the American Midwest and Californias Central Valley to the unexpected centers of climate resilient seed diversity in the arid war torn fields of Syria and Iraq the mountains of southern Mexico and Latin America and the lands of indigenous food cuivators in the American Southwest and Northwest There Native American communities are seeing increasing interest in their ability to grow food in shifting conditions over thousands of years Newly updated and available for the first time in paperback Seeds of Resistance gives new meaning to the term farm to table by unearthing the largely hidden backstory to the first ingredient in that journey the seed