{"id":21812,"date":"2025-03-27T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/2025\/03\/the-purpose-of-wild-plants-is-not-to-feed-us-but-to-propagate-their-seeds\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:12:34","slug":"the-purpose-of-wild-plants-is-not-to-feed-us-but-to-propagate-their-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/2025\/03\/the-purpose-of-wild-plants-is-not-to-feed-us-but-to-propagate-their-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"The purpose of wild plants is not to feed us, but to propagate their seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">But how do they do this openly in an oligopoly regime?<\/h2>\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are happy to share this article by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saramanisera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sara Manisera<\/a> in our blog, the first episode focuses on seeds in the series <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slow-news.com\/serie\/mani-in-pasta\" target=\"_blank\">Le Mani in Pasta  produced by<\/a> Slow News. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>From Mesopotamian seeds to industrial agriculture: a journey into the world of wheat to understand who controls the supply chain, from seeds to pasta.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slow-news.com\/serie\/mani-in-pasta\/i-semi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go to the Article<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:43px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" data-src=\"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seed-industry-structure-1996-2022_PhilHoward_SlowNews-1024x662.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13823 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seed-industry-structure-1996-2022_PhilHoward_SlowNews-980x633.png 980w, https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Seed-industry-structure-1996-2022_PhilHoward_SlowNews-480x310.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/662;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History celebrates the battlefields where we meet our death, but does not speak of the ploughed fields where we thrive; it knows the names of the bastards of kings, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the path of human folly. Henri Fabre, entomologist and naturalist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1450,3152],"tags":[5531,1760,5165],"class_list":["post-21812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-networks","category-news-en-2","tag-library-of-wheat","tag-rete-semi-rurali-en","tag-sara-manisera-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21813,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21812\/revisions\/21813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/org.wwoof.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}