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DESCRIPTION:*Gary Paul Nabhan* is an internationally-celebrated nature writ
 er\, food and  \nfarming activist\, and proponent of conserving the links 
 between biodiversity  \nand cultural diversity. He has been been honored a
 s a pioneer and creative  \nforce in the 'local food movement” and seed sa
 ving community by Utne  \nReader\, Mother Earth News\, New York Times\, Bi
 oneers and Time magazine.\n\nAs the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustaina
 ble Food Systems at the  \nUniversity of Arizona Southwest Center\, he wor
 ks with students\, faculty and  \nnon-profits to build a more just\, nutri
 tious\, sustainable and  \nclimate-resilient foodshed spanning the U.S./Me
 xico border. He was among the  \nearliest researchers to promote the use o
 f native foods in preventing  \ndiabetes\, especially in his role as a co-
 founder and researcher with Native  \nSeeds/SEARCH. Gary is also personall
 y engaged as an orchard-keeper\, wild  \nfoods forager and pollinator habi
 tat restorationist working from his small  \nfarm in Patagonia\, Arizona n
 ear the Mexican border. He has helped forge  \n“the radical center” for co
 llaborative conservation among farmers\,  \nranchers\, indigenous peoples 
 and environmentalists in the West.\n\nHe played key roles in establishing 
 the Ironwood Forest National Monument\,  \ncommunity-based seed banks\, la
 nd reserves for conserving wild crop relatives\,  \nand restored habitats 
 for migratory pollinators throughout the West.\n\nAgricultural historian P
 eter Hatch of Monticello has called Nabhan “the  \nlyrical scholar of gene
 tic diversity.” As an Arab-American essayist and  \npoet\, he is author or
  editor of twenty-four books\, some of which have been  \ntranslated into 
 Arabic\, Spanish\, Italian\, French\, Croation\, Korean\, Chinese  \nand J
 apanese. For his creative writing and its influence on community-based  \n
 conservation\, he has been honored with a MacArthur “genius” award\, a  \n
 Lannan Literary Fellowship\, a Southwest Book Award\, the John Burroughs M
 edal  \nfor nature writing\, the Vavilov Medal\, and several honorary degr
 ees and  \nlifetime achievement awards.\n\nHe works most of the year as a 
 research scientist at Tumamoc Hill and the  \nSouthwest Center of the Univ
 ersity of Arizona\, but he is also engaged with  \nseveral food justice an
 d farming alliances\, including Sabores Sin Fronteras\,  \nSanta Cruz Vall
 ey Heritage Alliance\, Wild Farm Alliance\, Renewing America’s  \nFood Tra
 ditions\, and the Borderlands Habitat Restoration Initiative. Nabhan  \nis
  humbled and honored to serve as a professed Ecumenical Franciscan brother
 \,  \nhelping the Franciscan Action Network in shaping ethical responses t
 o  \nenvironmental injustice\, to immigration issues and to climate change
 .\n\n \n\n  [1]\n\n\n[1] http://garynabhan.com/i/
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SUMMARY:Gary Nabhan\, 'Sustaining Food Security amidst Climate Uncertainty 
 and  \nPollinator Decline.'
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