Wheat: The Grain at the Center of Civilization
Here’s a link to my global history of wheat over the last 22,000 years. All around the world. And in just 25 minutes.
Wheat: The Grain at the Center of Civilization
It’s the paper I gave at the Borlaug100 Conference a couple of months ago and it’s in four parts.
Wheat: One Among Many Grains, 20,000 B.C–200 B.C.
Wheat: One Among Many Grains
Wheat: The Basis of the Eurasian Empires, 200 B.C.-1900 A.D.
Wheat and the Global Dietary Crisis, 1880-1920
Wheat as the Grain for All, 1920s-present
Rachel, nice to see you ‘live’ and nice to follow your thoughts and the pictures. Thanks for sharing your lecture. It’s amazing, this evolution in culture of the bond between humans and wheat, ending up everyone wants products with wheat.
I suppose and I hope that the next step will be: develop at new a difference in grains/eatable seeds of the crop that traditionally fits in that part of the world on that soil in that culture of the people who live there and know how to make the seeds to food.
Time might be ripe…
Hello Ineke, I couldn’t agree more that the the story of the “wheatification” of the world is quite amazing. And I think you are right that the time may well be ripe for a revival of the other grains. Those concerned with food are very interested here in the States and I think in Europe too.
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