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Plant Breeding AlterLinks Topic Index The Centrality of Seed: Building Agricultural Resilience Through Plant Breeding Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Five of the global issues most frequently debated today are the decline of biodiversity in general and of agrobiodiversity in particular, climate change, hunger and malnutrition, poverty and water. Seed is central to all five issues. The way in which seed is produced has been arguably their major cause. But it can also be the solution to all these issues. Collectors on the edge The influence of Kew Gardens reaches far. In the heart of Botswana, meet the leaders of the Millenium Seed Bank Project Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Millenium Seed Bank Project is an international botanical project to collect and study 10% of the world's plant species. Connexions Digest Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989 Fowler, Cary Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Awad Winner Resource Type: Article Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1949). Meeting the Expectations of the Land Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels. Mooney, Pat Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner Resource Type: Article Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1947). Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018 What are we eating? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2018 What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food? A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.

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