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Like this, they always have a yield, as the
varieties
differ in their reaction to pests and drier or wetter years.
In the last 150 years, we lost 75 percent of all
varieties
ever selected by humans.
Traditional varieties, on the other hand, can be regrown by everybody who wants to, year after year, by saving your own seeds.
With traditional varieties, many ways are possible, and this is what makes them powerful.
We do not know what challenges lie ahead and what new traits will be necessary, but the more diversity we can safeguard now, the better the chances are that we will have the suitable
varieties
at hand for the future.
And that is why we from the ProSpecieRara Foundation try to save as many different traditional
varieties
as possible.
At the moment we're safeguarding 1,600 different vegetable
varieties
in our seed library here in Basel, and the number is still growing.
We would need a very large garden to be able to do so, but fortunately, we have the help of over 500 volunteers who grow the
varieties
in their own garden and then send the saved seeds back to us.
I want you to think that every bite connects you to the past and the future: to these anonymous farmers, that first bred the first wheat varieties; and to the farmers of today, who've been making this.
Here's some beans, and there are about 35 or 40 different
varieties
of beans on this picture.
Now, imagine each one of these
varieties
as being distinct from another about the same way as a poodle from a Great Dane.
But there are 35 to 40,000 different
varieties
of beans.
We have about 200,000 different
varieties
of wheat, and we have about 2 to 400,000 different
varieties
of rice, but it's being lost.
We have now about 425,000 samples of unique crop
varieties.
There's 70,000 samples of different
varieties
of rice in this facility right now.
So other students will take the
varieties
of ebony which Arvin identifies in our lab, graft them to produce saplings, and work with local communities to co-produce ebony with local fruit tree species in their various farms using our own tree farm approach, whereby we invite all the farmers to choose their own tree species they want in their farms.
This tribe, the Cofan, has 17
varieties
of ayahuasca, all of which they distinguish a great distance in the forest, all of which are referable to our eye as one species.
Well, it turns out you take each of the 17
varieties
in the night of a full moon, and it sings to you in a different key.
Sometimes in rice we found incredible increases in yield when you mix different
varieties
of rice side by side.
So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties: there are spearers and smashers.
All the accents were horrible, be they German, Canadian, or some British
varieties.
Elaborate, realistic sets,
varieties
of characterizations -- here he plays an irascible doctor who is jealous of wife Mabel's old boyfriend --and the darkest lighting in a comedy until BRINGING UP BABY combine to produce a comedy far from Keystone's frenetic mold.
Aside from the sincerity of the story--its good guy thinks he's a bad guy but becomes the best guy/hero theme--"Hustle" is a non-stop feast of turned tables, of the literal and figurative
varieties.
There are not that many modern
varieties
of this sort of practice, but the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods comes close.
This pooling function would be particularly important in cases where there are different grades or
varieties
of the product (as with oil or coffee), and where prices can diverge enough to make an important difference to the exporters.
To the extent that human capital involves character traits and
varieties
of “know-how” that are transmitted within the realms of the family and the community, rather than by formal education, it becomes both methodologically elusive and difficult to manipulate by public policy.
Consider a preventable disease that most people have never heard of: konzo, a permanent, irreversible, upper-motor neuron disorder, common in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa that rely on the bitter
varieties
of the cassava plant as a staple crop.
Thus, the neurocognitive effects documented for non-konzo children in konzo-affected households and communities make it all the more important to ensure food safety in regions dependent on bitter
varieties
of cassava with high levels of cyanogenic compounds.
To this end, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has supported research leading to the development of nontoxic, high-yield
varieties
of cassava.
These genetically engineered strains can thrive even in degraded soil, so that people no longer have to turn to the more toxic
varieties.
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