No matter where you live, you have the memory of something you used to eat that is no longer a part of your diet - something your grandmother used to make, something a small shop used to carry. Something we have lost. This extinction is a process; it happens one meal at a time.

~ Preeti Simran Sethi

Preeti Simran Sethi Culture Diet Foods Loss

Ethiopia is the center of origin and diversity for the majority of coffee we drink. The commodification of coffee pushes farmers to grow as much as possible by whatever means possible. This has contributed to deforestation. The place where coffee was born - the area with the greatest biodiversity of coffee anywhere in the world - could disappear. No forest, no coffee. No coffee, no forest. What we lose isn't specific to Ethiopia; it impacts us all.

~ Preeti Simran Sethi

Preeti Simran Sethi Biodiversity Coffee Deforestation Ethiopia Food

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.

~ Preeti Simran Sethi

Preeti Simran Sethi Biodiversity Food United States