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Seed Saving in Japan, Taiwan, UK

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No activity can be more important than saving seeds of the plants we all need for sustenance - but we have mostly forgotten that art, or science. People here have not given up on traditional ways of seed saving, according to Imaizumi and Akitsu. What are the moral codes for seed-saving? From the interviews with practitioners in Japan: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-287-417-7_20#page-1 (pdf) 2015 Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century Proceedings of APSAFE2013   http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789812874160 Editors: Soraj Hongladarom ISBN: 978-981-287-416-0 (Print) 978-981-287-417-7 http://seedsavers.net/ has more: Seedsavers Reunion in Japan    Seedsavers as a movement has expanded in Japan beyond belief in the last 12 years. Today the quest for clean food in Japan is linked to varietal diversity. old varieties of fruit and vegetables...