{"id":291782,"date":"2025-06-14T00:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/erna-vs-otto-agricultural-biodiversity-weblog\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T00:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T00:05:38","slug":"erna-vs-otto-agricultural-biodiversity-weblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=291782","title":{"rendered":"Erna vs Otto \u2013 Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Is it possible to epitomize the debate over how to conserve plant genetic resources in terms of the contrasting views of two people?<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/0961463X251333854\">Julia Nordblad<\/a> of the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, the answer is a resounding yes. And, as she sets out in a recent paper, the two people are Otto Frankel and <a href=\"https:\/\/agro.biodiver.se\/?s=erna+bennet\">Erna Bennett<\/a>, both very much friends of the blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026Frankel and Bennett exemplify that there are indeed different versions of planetary<br \/>temporalities that imagine the entanglements between the social and the planetary differently, and thus end up promoting distinctive politics for amending diversity loss and saving evolution. For <strong>Frankel<\/strong>, the solution lay within the temporality of development. Modern technology could be used to replace the storage of evolutionary time in the \u201cprimitive\u201d agriculture, and progressive norms could emerge that would achieve protection of wild evolutionary time in the natural world. For <strong>Bennett<\/strong> in contrast, development was not the only possible historical trajectory, but a particular historical process driven by economic and political interest. Her vision of how evolutionary time should be protected was to let it be decentralized in varied agricultural practices shielded from corporate interest that would otherwise quickly drive diversity down and eclipse the evolutionary temporal horizon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So it\u2019s possible. But is it helpful? <\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m torn. You can certainly find descriptions of the early days of the crop diversity conservation movement that have a larger cast of characters. Like for example the equally recent <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crawfordfund.org\/news\/australias-search-for-greener-pastures\/\">Australia\u2019s Search for Greener Pastures: The Foundations of the Global Genetic Resources Movement, 1926-1980<\/a><\/em> by Derek Byerlee. Or the earlier but still canonical <em><a href=\"https:\/\/alliancebioversityciat.org\/publications-data\/scientists-plants-and-politics-history-plant-genetic-resources-movement\">Scientists, Plants and Politics: A History of the Plant Genetic Resources Movement<\/a><\/em>, by Robin Pistorius. <\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s something so satisfyingly protean about Bennett and Frankel \u2014 and indeed their sort-of-rivalry. So I\u2019m going to say that yes, it\u2019s helpful, at least to get you started understanding this history.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of protean: where would Vavilov stand? If I read another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whp-journals.co.uk\/PP\/article\/view\/1124\">recent paper<\/a> correctly, by Jeffrey Wall of the University of Turku, somewhere in the middle. 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