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Where Our Food Comes From Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

Gary Paul Nabhan

The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Va...

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It was described as the book on Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov, and detailed his quest to end famine, highlighting his work's beginning and end in periods of famine.

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Well, agricultural ecologist, ethno-botanist, and Franciscan brother, Gary Nabhan, wrote the book on our Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov.

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Episode: The Vault

It was described as the book on Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov, and detailed his quest to end famine, highlighting his work's beginning and end in periods of famine.

"

Well, agricultural ecologist, ethno-botanist, and Franciscan brother, Gary Nabhan, wrote the book on our Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov.

The book is called Where Our Food Comes From? Retracing Nikolai Vavilov's quest to end famine.

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