via Alyssa Jade McDonald-Bärtl we promp those of you in Melbourne: Check out visiting fellow Simran Preeti Sethi for her lecture: Endangered foods: The loss of agricultural biodiversity and slow extinction of what we grow and eat. Thurs 26.10 at melbourne uni. "The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates 75 percent of crop varieties have disappeared since 1900. This shrinkage of genetic variance echoes through every link in our food chain and strips inputs, crops, livestock and aquatic life of their ability to adapt to changes in the environment, thereby putting our entire food supply at risk. This extinction of food is a process: buried in the soil, hidden within feedlots and immersed in the sea. Simran Sethi, William Gamble Principal Fellow, will detail this slow loss of biodiversity and explain solutions that are innovative, compelling and delicious."....
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