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Endangered Maize - Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (Paperback)
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Endangered Maize - Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (Paperback)
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Charting the political, social, and environmental history of
efforts to conserve crop diversity. Many people worry that we're
losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past
century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture
have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this
transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and
eaters have sought to protect fruits, grains, and vegetables they
consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and
heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces
and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this
widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another
extinction narrative that concerns the survival of farmers
themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to
collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of
corn in Mexico and the United States to uncover this hidden
narrative and show how it shaped the conservation strategies
adopted by scientists, states, and citizens. In Endangered Maize,
historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years
of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks
that farmers and researchers have considered essential to
maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to
preserve diversity in one of the world's most important crops,
Curry reveals how those who sought to protect native, traditional,
and heritage crops forged their methods around the expectation that
social, political, and economic transformations would eliminate
diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how
cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new
understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to
protect and preserve crop diversity.
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