Nurcan Atalan-Helicke

Nurcan Atalan-Helicke is a professor of Environmental Studies & Sciences at Skidmore College researching conservation of biodiversity and genetically engineered food and Islam. She is the author of “Introduction to the Symposium American Food Resilience,” published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences in 2015.

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In the last fifty years, global agricultural practices have favored growing ever fewer varieties of high-yielding crops, leading to fears that the loss of genetic diversity in food leaves the growing human population exposed to risks of food shortages from disease, pests, and climate change.

Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks

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