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Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide – and that’s not good!

This wide array of types is an example of agrobiodiversity – a genetic legacy created by natural selection interacting with cultural practices over thousands of years. Today, however, agrobiodiversity is declining in many countries. In Mexico farmers are cultivating only 20 percent of the corn types that were grown there in 1930. Chinese farmers are producing only 10 percent of 10,000 varieties of wheat that were recorded there in 1949. More than 95 percent of known apple varieties that existed in the United States in 1900 are no longer cultivated.

By | 2017-11-30T15:36:12-05:00 November 30th, 2017|Agriculture, Food, News, No SF, Resyndicated|Comments Off on Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide – and that’s not good!