More Than Pretty Heirloom Tomatoes: Saving Seeds Critical to Combatting Climate Change
The photographer's grandfather had saved these seeds in the 1920s. They were discovered last year and planted in a greenhouse. Photo: Stefan Jansson Local food, local varieties of plants and the entire locavore movement are reoccurring topics here at TreeHugger. And most of the time the focus is on how by buying locally you’re reducing food miles, encouraging local biodiversity in food production, as wells as making a small contribution towards de-industrializing the current agricultural paradigm. But there’s another reason biodiversity of agricultural crops is important: The very survival of the human species. In an new piece for Yale Environment 360 Fred Pearce talks about the importance of preserving and reinvigorating the practice of seed saving and its place in coping with climate change. (more)
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