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The Divorce of Agriculture and Biodiversity

Inter Press Service: Latin America's vast biological diversity has contributed little to the region's commercial agriculture, despite being the birthplace of two of the world's four most widely consumed food crops: maize and potatoes. The current global food crisis has fuelled the debate about agricultural production and trade, including the sharp decline in the diversity of commercial crops. Over the course of human history, people have consumed more than 7,000 species of plants. But in the last ... Read »
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