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As you scroll down the page, you can read about the awards that Gary has received over the years. Candidates for the awards are recommended by a network of writers, literary scholars, publishers, and editors, who show outstanding work. MacArthur Fellowship, 1990-1995 The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work. LINK Pew Scholarship for Conservation and the Environment, 1991 The Pew Scholars in Conservation and Environment accepted its original class of twelve scientists, journalists and activists in 1991, to narrow the gap between conservation theory and practice. It involved scholars in a number of collabotative projects, include the production of Gretchen Daily’s nature’s Services book from Island Press that included an essay on Pollination Services by Nabhan and Buchmann, as well as workgroups on biosphere reserves, global warming and endangered species act reauthorization. The program evolved into a narrower effort on linking scholars in marine sciences, which Nabhan…
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Where Our Food Comes From – Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine, 2008 Gary Paul Nabhan Released on: 09/12/2008 The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From , Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter. In his travels, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. Through discussions…
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Place Based Foods of Appalachia – From Rarity to Community Restoration and Market Recovery This publication seeks to foster recognition of Appalachia as the region in North America with the highest extant food diversity, and to inspire further documentation, recovery and community use of these foods within the region. It is produced by the Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT) alliance, which brings together food, farming, conservation and culinary organizations and advocates to ensure that the diverse foods and traditions unique to North America remain alive and dynamic. Download Place Based Foods of Appalachia – (PDF – 36 pages, 2.13 MB – Published in February 2011) Food Producers and their Place-based Foods at Risk in the Gulf Coast This booklet contains essays by some of the Gulf Coast’s most respected and cherished players in the food movement, like Crescent City Farmers’ market co-founder Richard McCarthy, author Sara Roahen, musician Louis Michot, chef and folklorist Poppy Tooker, and author and RAFT founder Gary Paul Nabhan. The essays appear with scientific documentation regarding Louisiana’s imperiled food culture. The booklet was many years in the making but was rushed to publication in response to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Download…
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