BFI affiliated faculty Mark Schapiro recently wrote an article for Pacific Standard exploring the rise of seed libraries in the face of increasing corporate consolidation within the agricultural sector. Schaprio writes, “Seed libraries are becoming repositories for our increasingly endangered genetic resources — publicly accessible and independent from the agriculture conglomerates that are becoming ever more detached from the fields where farmers plant their crops.”
Read the full Pacific Standard article here.
BFI affiliated faculty Mark Schapiro recently wrote an article for Pacific Standard exploring the rise of seed libraries in the face of increasing corporate consolidation within the agricultural sector. Schaprio writes, “Seed libraries are becoming repositories for our increasingly endangered genetic resources — publicly accessible and independent from the agriculture conglomerates that are becoming ever more detached from the fields where farmers plant their crops.”
