The Threatened Gene: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity

by Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney

Since the days of the hunter-gatherers, Man has used for food plants of a vast genetic diversity. Yet the very earliest farming laid the seeds of a frightening tendency, greatly increased by the Agricultural Revolution. Uniformity in agriculture has been growing at an ever-increasing rate, most particularly in the use of plant breeds. As fewer varieties are employed, so the neglected ones disappear and are lost to the global gene pool. Genetic erosion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718828305
• ISBN13: 9780718828301
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 280 Pages