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<big>'''''The Key to Sustainable Agriculture Going Forward: Seed Diversity, Plant Diversity'''''</big>
<big>'''''The Key to Sustainable Agriculture Going Forward: Seed Diversity, Plant Diversity'''''</big>
:''Nature's Strategy of Survival Is Diversity  
:'''''Nature's Strategy of Survival Is Diversity '''''
:''High-input industrial 'monoculture' requiring hybrid (often GMO) seeds, petrochemical fertilizers/pesticides/herbicides/fungicides/miticides and required growing regimens have multiple costs going forward, many of which are unaccounted for, eg, health impacts, water-pollution, aquifer-depletion', top-soil loss, climate emissions, high-energy use...''
 
:''Noting that high-input industrial 'monoculture' requires hybrid (often GMO) seeds, petrochemical fertilizers / pesticides / herbicides / fungicides / miticides and requires growing regimens with multiple costs and externalities, many of which presently go unaccounted, eg, individual chemical/pesticide-related health impacts, region-wide water-pollution, aquifer-depletion, top-soil loss, climate emissions, high-energy use...''


''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_Savers_Exchange -- http://www.seedsavers.org/mission''
''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_Savers_Exchange -- http://www.seedsavers.org/mission''

Latest revision as of 17:03, 14 April 2016

The Key to Sustainable Agriculture Going Forward: Seed Diversity, Plant Diversity

Nature's Strategy of Survival Is Diversity
Noting that high-input industrial 'monoculture' requires hybrid (often GMO) seeds, petrochemical fertilizers / pesticides / herbicides / fungicides / miticides and requires growing regimens with multiple costs and externalities, many of which presently go unaccounted, eg, individual chemical/pesticide-related health impacts, region-wide water-pollution, aquifer-depletion, top-soil loss, climate emissions, high-energy use...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_Savers_Exchange -- http://www.seedsavers.org/mission

http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19921627294.html;jsessionid=679A6CAF054E64AA71A12D99A1466FEC

http://netnebraska.org/article/news/937130/heirlooms-passed-down-seed-savers-exchange

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/SeedSaversExchangeLogo.png/220px-SeedSaversExchangeLogo.png

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