Farming with the grain - John Letts and his evolutionary 'made for organic' heritage seeds

The Ecologist
Nov 10, 2016, 10:14 am93 pts
To feed the world we must abandon not just GMOs but all diversity-destroying selective crop breeding, organic farmer John Letts told Oliver Tickell. Only by using biodiverse local seed mixtures that evolve in the field can food production adapt to climate change without ever-increasing chemical inputs, and meet…

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