By David Shaw
Slate Magazine reports on the largest global survey of crop diversity and diets conducted to date. Released last month (March 2014), it "paints a bleak picture of global food supplies. Countries are 36 percent more reliant on the same staple crops than they were 50 years ago. Just 50 crop commodities provide more than 90 percent of calories, protein, and fat around the world....It’s not just that our food choices are dull. It’s a recipe for disaster."
Climate change, higher temperatures and drought are already threatening our commercial food monocultures.
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