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Crop diversity and agricultural crisis / Helen Anne Curry

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize

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0:00.0

I don't know if he buy that I'm

0:03.4

I'm a drone to the an a sheep.

0:06.5

And then come down travel door,

0:08.2

I don't come to a car,

0:09.4

and jump, and the town, but the eye-not skin. Oh yeah. Oh, you're welcome Neil.

0:35.0

This is a man.

0:37.0

This. This is hell and not only.

0:45.0

The planets on fire.

0:49.0

So yes, this is hell and not only is our planet on fire, but crop diversity is endangered too.

0:58.0

It must be as we are storing away seeds of endangered plants, so when we need them in a future of far less

1:05.0

plant diversity than we currently have and like I said we must not have much of a future and

1:11.1

the future must be really bleak if we're storing away all these seeds and seed

1:14.8

vaults. Why else would we have constructed places like this valbard global seed vault?

1:20.8

You may have seen images of the vault, a minimalist wedge shimmering in the Norwegian

1:25.7

archipelago of Svalbard, stuck in permafrost and thick rock to protect seed samples

1:30.7

from the world's crop collections, just in case we need them to feed ourselves

1:34.8

and survive in the future.

1:36.8

Although you got to admit it's a weird way to preserve crop diversity by storing it away in

1:40.9

a frozen locker to sit on shelves until who knows when.

1:44.6

However, it's not that weird when you consider the history of crop diversity, how crops

1:48.8

were abundant and diverse, that is until Modernity arrived with its science and research, ready to improve upon the

1:55.8

natural world and make it well modern, and that meant better, or so they assumed, no longer being stewarded by indigenous cultures and instead controlled by Western civilization.

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