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As we enter a period of ever deepening climate crisis it becomes increasingly important to understand the ways in which our current food system is susceptible to breakdown, and to act in ways that strengthen it.  Our existing food distribution system is dominated by very large for profit actors. More than 80% of the groceryContinue reading “Big Food is a Big Problem”

During the last 15 minutes of one of the interviews to doctor Dawn Bazely, she suggested the scientific community to think of Science as a political tool. There are several historical examples that we can recall to help support this argument, making it almost surprising to believe some people still think of science as theContinue reading “Science is Political”

In the last 10 years Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) has been put forward as part of the solution in the challenge of global food security. The United Nations has been working through the Food and Agriculture Organization to spread Quinoa worldwide, for what 2013 was declared “International Year of Quinoa”, and the crop has beenContinue reading “Quinoa for Global Impact”

Claudio Gay, born in 1800, was a pioneer of sciences in Chile. Born in France, he dedicated his life to botany and entomology, though he was a university professor of geology, physics, and natural history for a few years in the city of Valparaiso, Chile. In 1830, Gay was hired by Chilean government to documentContinue reading “Claudio Gay”

Marianne North (1860) was an amateur gardener and painter from Europe, who traveled over Jamaica, Peru, Japan, India, Australia, the US, New Zealand, and more. She was so passionate about flowers, she actually went to every continent except for the Antarctic in pursuit of new specimens to paint. Logically, but worth mentioning, she accomplished allContinue reading “Marianne North”