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		<title>What is the Relevance of Vavilov in the Year 2010?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: Gary Nabhan was recently given the honor of presenting the biennial Vavilov Memorial Lecture in Moscow and offering a similar lecture in Saint Petersburg, and was further honored with the gift of the Vavilov Medal. These are his reflections after years of retracing Vavilov through the centers of food diversity, while writing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Paul Nabhan: The Vavilov Legacy is Alive and Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I arrived at the National Agricultural Library just outside Washington D.C. one noon this October, a white-haired man with a commanding presence stood at the security check, impeccably dressed in an elegant suit, while his translator explained to the guard that he would be the guest of honor for an event that afternoon. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Paul Nabhan: Rescuing Fruit Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in last week&#8217;s post, Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT), of which I am founder, learned that at least seventy of the heirloom apples unique to New England that remain are so infrequently featured in nurseries, farmers markets and roadside stands that they can be considered threatened or endangered.
One additional source of heirloom fruits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Paul Nabhan: Apples of Our Eyes, Nose, and Mouths</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the leaves of New England begin to glow with crimsons, purples and golds, many of us remember that it&#8217;s time for crimson, purple and gold apples to be picked, packed, sequestered in storage sheds, or processed into cider, butter, sauces or pies.
Apples exemplify that taste of the fall for many of us, but just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Nabhan: Potato Diversity and Traditional Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GaryNabhan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in last week&#8217;s blog post, in Peru&#8217;s Parque de la Papa-the Potato Park-, the Quechuan farmers maintain some 1200 varieties of potatoes named in their own language. Farmers are particularly attentive to the effects of climate change on the micro-habitats where each potato variety can be planted. Quechuan Ricardo Paco Chipa says his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Nabhan: Crop Repatriation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repatriation literally means to bring something back to the fatherland, taking into custody something which once belonged to your cultural community.
There have been other instances of crop repatriation-notably the dozens of Hopi crop varieties relocated, documented and returned to the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office in 2002. This was facilitated by members of what is now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Paul Nabhan: A Visit to Perus Potato Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a quarter century, the breed of ethnobotanists I&#8217;ve hung with have proposed through countless lectures and publications that crop diversity can best conserved in situ, in the cultural landscapes managed by the traditional farmers who have long been its stewards. Now, in the highlands of Peru, a dream has come true, one that would [...]]]></description>
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