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<u>Seeds</u>: buckwheat, amarante and quinoa. What about promoting the cultivation of drought resilient seeds native to the American continent, in California’s Central Valley? | <u>Seeds</u>: buckwheat, amarante and quinoa. What about promoting the cultivation of drought resilient seeds native to the American continent, in California’s Central Valley? | ||
===A bound in time between two agricultural | ===A bound in time between two agricultural crises=== | ||
[[File:SPD1220_document-almond-RB-3D.jpg|thumb|…you will first find this printed matter.]] | [[File:SPD1220_document-almond-RB-3D.jpg|thumb|…you will first find this printed matter.]] | ||
One century ago, the “Dust Bowl” was forming on a vast strip of land cutting the United States vertically, from Montana to Texas. Intensive farming encouraged by the State led to erosion of the soil and blizzards of dust burying houses and lungs. F. D. Roosevelt’s government answered to this crisis with the Soil Erosion Service in 1933, though no amount of subsidies were sufficient enough to counter it. Unsustainable farming technics prevailed, helped by the so-called Green Revolution; paving the way for industrial farming as we know it today. | One century ago, the “Dust Bowl” was forming on a vast strip of land cutting the United States vertically, from Montana to Texas. Intensive farming encouraged by the State led to erosion of the soil and blizzards of dust burying houses and lungs. F. D. Roosevelt’s government answered to this crisis with the Soil Erosion Service in 1933, though no amount of subsidies were sufficient enough to counter it. Unsustainable farming technics prevailed, helped by the so-called Green Revolution; paving the way for industrial farming as we know it today. | ||