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Climate Change, Agro-biodiversity and Food Security: The Value Of Traditional Seeds

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Date:
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Brian Emerson
Location Details:
Location: Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave. (near Dwight Way), Berkeley (Wheelchair accessible)

Humanity has lost nearly three-quarters of our agricultural biodiversity in the last century. Now, in the face of an increasingly volatile climate, conserving the remaining seed diversity is a matter of survival. A growing body of scientists, farmers and activists have rejected the technological fix of genetically engineered crops in support of the conservation of traditional seeds and the promotion of agroecological farming techniques.

Please join The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), in partnership with the Ecology Center, for an intimate dialogue about the value of traditional crop varieties and ecological agriculture in an unstable world, with special guest, Dr. Debal Deb - ecologist, scholar, author and founding director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in West Bengal, India. This is a beneft to raise urgently needed funds for Dr. Deb's inspiring Vrihi and Basudha initiatives which have conserved and regenerated over 600 varieties of traditional rice to date - the largest non-governmental rice seed repository in eastern India. Dr. Deb will discuss the crucial importance of this agricultural heritage to food security and resilience in the face of climate change.
Added to the calendar on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 9:30AM
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