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Humans have radically altered the evolution of agricultural plants since World War Two, remaking our seed system with industrial agricultural practices to feed a growing population. Yet in the changing climate of decades to come, UVM researchers say, the seeds that will feed the world are in the hands of smallholder farmers.

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In a new discussion in Plants, People, Planet, Chen and co-authors examine how the emergence of professional crop breeders have “disrupted evolutionary processes” to “reshape the entire food system.”

The mass production of high-yielding seeds in limited varieties has created a chasmic divide between a “formal seed system,” which now sells most seeds worldwide, and the “informal seed system,” which consists of farmers who select their own seeds to develop diverse, locally adapted crop varieties, known as landraces.

Source: Modern seeds aren’t ready for climate change: Smallholder farmers may hold the key to future food security

1. You will receive a body.You may love it or hate it, but this one body will be yours for the duration of your lifetime on earth.

2. You will be presented with lessons.You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “life.” Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.Growth is a process of trial and error: experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.”

4. A lesson is repeated until learned.A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go to the next lesson.

5. Learning does not end.There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better than “here.”When you’re “there” has become a “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that will again, look better than “here.”

7. Others are only mirrors of you.You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. Each reflection is an opportunity for growth.

8. What you make of your life is up to you.You have all the tools and resources you need, what you make of them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you.The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need do is look, listen and trust.1

0. You will forget all this at birth.Throughout the process of life, you will have opportunities to remember if you choose.

Source: Ten Rules For Being Human – Dr. Chérie Carter-Scott, MCC

Olivas: I would say, help me carry forward the message about what the suit is. As much as this machine is to keep the human being alive in the space — like solo spacecraft — it’s the contributions that make it right. It’s all those engineers who go through kind of an anonymous perspective in their entire career, and you’re never really knowing what they do. But it just happens because of a human being behind it. That team, I’m part of today, and I want to make sure that that becomes clear.

Source: This astronaut took 5 spacewalks. Now, he’s helping make spacesuits for future ISS crews (exclusive) | Space