Our Daily Bread 08 - Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov http://ow.ly/nxbJ30liJUz This short episode fails to do justice to the man who, more than anyone, first grasped the importance of knowing where and how wheat arose. It does, however, explain why Vavilov wanted to collect the 'building blocks' of future food security, for wheat and many other crops. In more than 60 countries, Vavilov and his colleagues gathered diversity from farmers' fields; they died protecting their collections.

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I absolutely love this series of small podcasts Jeremy! Thank you!

I can't believe you dissed my stamp collection! (The one I have not looked at since high school but still have in a box somewhere.) How date you! :-)

BTW, nice to revisit this story.

@sigurdurdahl Thank you for listening and enjoying enough to say so.

@jojolemon I have one myself; and I know it is useless.