Semillas recuperadas

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian geneticist Nikolai Vavílov traveled halfway around the world, studying seeds in all their biodiversity and researching agricultural techniques to produce new varieties of plants that were more productive and better adapted to the different climates of his immense nation. In a true "on the road" story that recalls the travels of the Russian wise man, Elisabetta Tola and Marco Boscolo visit the current "guardians" of threatened agricultural biodiversity. From the United States to Mexico, from Senegal to Ethiopia, from Indonesia to Iran, from Italy to France and Spain, "Recovered Seeds" tells the extraordinary story of different groups of researchers, farmers and new artisans who produce, conserve and exchange natural seeds to face the challenges of climate change, the impoverishment of soils and the need to produce more food.