Where our food comes from: retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine

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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, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger.

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• Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilovs Quest To End Famine available on August 28 2018 from Indigo for 35.0
  
• Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine available on July 03 2018 from Amazon for 22.08
  
• ISBN bar code 9781597263993 ξ1 registered May 08 2012
  
• ISBN bar code 9781597263993 ξ4 registered August 28 2018
  
• ISBN bar code 9781597263993 ξ5 registered July 03 2018
  
• ISBN bar code 9781597263993 ξ3 registered February 08 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9781597263993 ξ2 registered May 08 2012
  
• Product category is Where-Our-Food-Comes-From Gary-Paul-Nabhan Book
• Manufacturered by Shearwater
  

• Sku # 978159726399
  

• Product weight is 1.15 lbs.
  

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, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter.

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References

^ (2012). Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine , Island Press. ISBN 9781597263993 (revised Oct 2025)
^ (2012). Where our food comes from: retracing Nikolay Vavilov's quest to end famine, Island Press. ISBN 9781597263993 (revised May 2012)
^ Gary Paul NabhanWhere Our Food Comes From : Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Paul Nabhan (2008, Hardcover) ISBN 9781597263993 (revised Feb 2015)
^ Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilovs Quest To End Famine Indigo. ISBN 9781597263993 (revised Aug 2018)
^ Gary Paul NabhanWhere Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine, Shearwater. Amazon. ISBN 9781597263993 (revised Jul 2018)