Seeds - On The Origin Of Food Crops
Language: English
Published by The Eriskay Connection, Breda, 2014
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In this book, published in 2014, Jos Jansen examines how innovative food crops are developed and how this process bears upon the world food problem. SEEDS is about Darwin’s natural selection and how it has long been overtaken by high-tech plant breeding. The project focuses on the aspect of how new food crops that are resistant to pests and diseases are bred, and therefore contribute significantly to our future food supply. Behind the images in this project, quintessential questions arise. Who is actually in charge on this planet? Nature? Human beings? A god? Should humans stop interfering with evolution and go back to the authenticity of small-scale farms and city farming? Or rather, is it humanity’s duty to steer evolution so that we can create enough food to feed the booming world population? What is natural and unnatural? And what does ‘natural’ mean anyway? Selections and nominations: - Selected by Nederlands Foto Museum as one of the most interesting photo books 2011-2016 - 'Selected by Dutch daily De Volkskrant as one of the 15 best photo books of 2014. …
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- Title
- Seeds - On The Origin Of Food Crops
- Author
- Jos Jansen
- Publisher
- The Eriskay Connection, Breda
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 949205101X
- ISBN 13
- 9789492051011
- Dimensions
- 24.1 centimeters width by 28 centimeters height by 1.6 centimeters depth
Wat hem fascineert is de dualiteit van dit proces: aan de ene kant de romantiek van het aardse en tactiele en aan de andere kant de rationaliteit van de moderne biotechnologie.
Jansen concentreert zich specifiek op de vraag hoe nieuwe voedselgewassen worden gekweekt die bestand zijn tegen ziekteplagen en daarmee een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan onze toekomstige voedselvoorziening. Hij toont bijvoorbeeld hoe planten worden blootgesteld aan specifieke insecten, met als resultaat dat vrijwel alle planten ziek worden of dood gaan. Toch blijft er soms één gezonde plant over met net dat ene stukje DNA dat ervoor zorgt dat juist hij als enige kan overleven.
Achter de beelden van dit project doemen grote levensvragen op. Wie is eigenlijk de baas is op deze planeet? De natuur? De mens? Een god? Moet de mens stoppen met ingrijpen in de evolutie en moeten we terug naar de authenticiteit en het idyllische van kleinschalige boerderijen en city farming?
Of is de mens juist meer dan ooit verplicht de evolutie te beïnvloeden met als doel voldoende en veilig voedsel te creëren voor een exploderende wereldbevolking? Waar ligt de grens tussen geoorloofd en niet geoorloofd? Natuurlijk en onnatuurlijk? En wat is eigenlijk de betekenis van natuurlijk?
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Wat hem fascineert is de dualiteit van dit proces: aan de ene kant de romantiek van het aardse en tactiele en aan de andere kant de rationaliteit van de moderne biotechnologie.
Jansen concentreert zich specifiek op de vraag hoe nieuwe voedselgewassen worden gekweekt die bestand zijn tegen ziekteplagen en daarmee een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan onze toekomstige voedselvoorziening. Hij toont bijvoorbeeld hoe planten worden blootgesteld aan specifieke insecten, met als resultaat dat vrijwel alle planten ziek worden of dood gaan. Toch blijft er soms één gezonde plant over met net dat ene stukje DNA dat ervoor zorgt dat juist hij als enige kan overleven.
Achter de beelden van dit project doemen grote levensvragen op. Wie is eigenlijk de baas is op deze planeet? De natuur? De mens? Een god? Moet de mens stoppen met ingrijpen in de evolutie en moeten we terug naar de authenticiteit en het idyllische van kleinschalige boerderijen en city farming?
Of is de mens juist meer dan ooit verplicht de evolutie te beïnvloeden met als doel voldoende en veilig voedsel te creëren voor een exploderende wereldbevolking? Waar ligt de grens tussen geoorloofd en niet geoorloofd? Natuurlijk en onnatuurlijk? En wat is eigenlijk de betekenis van natuurlijk?
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