Belgium, Feb. 13 -- Project Id: 124616
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Valuing food crops: From agrobiodiverse to agroindustrial fields
The cultivation of crop varieties is deeply impacted by major contemporary concerns - from ecological degradation to financial deregulation and demographic explosion. Therefore, the value of food crops should not be assessed only in economic terms. Ethical values that motivate farmers to ensure biodiversity are just as important. Focused on potato cultivation in Peru, maize in Mexico and rice in Laos, the EU-funded SeedsValues project will study the ethics of seed growing as well as the manifold appreciations of seeds in exchange and consumption. By exploring the links between growers and seeds it will ...