Where Our Food Comes From

by Gary Paul Nabhan

(Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine)

A wonderful and important book about a Soviet scientist in the 20's and 30's and his quest to find and record how farmers all over the world create and use different varieties of crops which are the best protection against disease and are able to genetically change crops under changing conditions such as drought or temperature change.

Nabhan returns to some of the countries in the 2000's that Vavilov visited to see what changes to take place.