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Book Reviews
Farmer’s Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World
Author: Stephen Brush
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2004
Reviewer: Stuart Pimm
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“Biodiversity’s three-part definition – the variety of genes, species and ecosystems – is best appreciated on a beach, with tropical forest in front of you, coral reefs behind and mountains in the distance. On rainy midwinter days, in a city far away, there is always the local grocery. […] Rural markets in Central America will have variously coloured maize kernels of assorted sizes and types. In Andean valleys you may find a hundred kinds of potato. This is the biodiversity that Farmers’ Bounty celebrates. It provides insights into questions of distribution, value and survival that apply to biodiversity as a whole.”
Link to Nature book review
Link to Nature book review
Price: US$37.50, £25
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13 February 2012