The lack of diversity in our diets affects the environment, the climate, cultural connections to food, soil and human health. When we grow, serve, produce and consume foods that come from just a handful of crop types we risk losing more biodiverse species, depleting the soil microbiome, and reducing the abundance of nutrients and beneficial plant chemicals that can promote wellbeing and prevent disease.
?? The Global Alliance for the Future of Food is, as always, at the forefront of research and innovation around this topic. This comprehensive webinar calls for crop diversification, moving away from monocultures and changing the industrial models of agriculture that contribute to 90% of deforestation, 60% or more of biodiversity loss, and account for huge amounts of the world’s freshwater use."
? If you don't have the 3 hours to watch the webinar, you might have 5 minutes to read the article that accompanies the link!
When only 15 crops fill the plates of most of the world’s population, you know we’ve got a problem with “food monotony”.?
Where industrialized food systems are driving this “food monotony,” we need to embrace beauty, nutrition, and diversity. Taking on this food monotony is one of the most critical issues of our time—and it’s one of the more fixable crises we face.
I shared my thoughts on some of the levers we can pull to catalyze the much-needed transition from monotony to diversity in a discussion by the Think20/G20. Listen back on the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s website: https://bit.ly/4dfxELe.
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Webinar: A critical shift from food monotony to crop and diet diversity
https://futureoffood.org
