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Albania: A lesson in localism

Sustainable Food Trust

Until 1990, the system of collective farms in a country that had been able to utilise its abundant water to irrigate most farmland, meant Albania was self-sufficient in food. The great diversity of open-pollinated varieties of maize are now lost – bar a handful in mountainous regions. Yet, unique and important varieties survive.

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Seeds from Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change

Civil Eats

Benjamin Ruddell , director of the National Water-Economy Project , said that Colorado River water shortages left large areas of farmland in Arizona unsowed, a bellwether of things to come. “Up Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email. Our seeds are very resilient,” said Johnson.

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