52 Profiles on Agroecology: Local Seed Bank in Palestine

In the world of agriculture, all too often we stop cultivating a vegetable or raising an animal breed simply because they are not profitable enough. The economic market is oriented to maximizing yields at all costs, concentrating on a small selection of the most “productive” species. Though it may warrant less media attention, extinction is not limited to species in the wild, but also to the plants and animals that have been raised through ten thousand years of selective breeding.

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Format: Document biblioteca
Language:English
Published: FAO ; 2017
Online Access:https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/BS178E
http://www.fao.org/3/a-bs178e.pdf
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