Growing calls for crop diversity | FT Food Revolution

Mass agriculture has embraced uniform, monoculture crops that can produce greater yields, but can also be more susceptible to disease. Now researchers and some growers are warning that diversity must be encouraged, to make the food system more resilient to threats like pests and climate change.

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Informative but certain things that could have been expanded on. Certain seed companies makes seeds with a 'terminator gene' which means they can only be used once and there are no seeds to collect for following years which is good for the seed companies profits but not good for poorer countries who are reliant on these companies for seeds to grow the crops they need. Also we need more land given over to 'wild areas of wild flowers to attract pollinators.