Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Paperback, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

630.8997

Genres

Collection

Gus

Publication

North Point Press (1991), Paperback, 225 pages

Description

Warns that modern agriculture practices have over-manipulated and genetically streamlined domestic plants and animals, and suggest fostering diversity, safeguarding wild plants, and developing a wide variety of crops for different local conditions.

Subjects

Indians of North America Agriculture

Plant conservation North America

Seeds North America

Language

English

Original publication date

1989

Physical description

225 p.; 8.9 inches

ISBN

0865473447 / 9780865473447

Local notes

GdZ; annotations by Gus di Zerega

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