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Growing diverse crops may not slow climate change as much as previously thought

Fred Lowe | 
Integrating perennial crops into corn and soybean rotations doesn't consistently increase the ability of soils to store carbon, according to ...
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Expanding India’s crop diversity could boost access to vital nutrients for 200 million people, study shows

There has been a substantial increase in food production over the last 50 years, but it has been accompanied by ...
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Crop diversity worldwide is growing, but wheat, maize (corn), soy, and rice cover almost 50% of farmland worldwide

Emma Bryce | 
Global agriculture is increasingly dominated by just a handful of crops with limited genetic richness, says a group of researchers ...
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Saving our seeds and why we could do more to protect genetic diversity

Colin Khoury | 
Nations of the world are working to preserve seed diversity through the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food ...
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Evaluating claims GMOs and modern agriculture have led to a 75% drop in crop diversity

Colin Khoury | 
The conventional wisdom is wrong: crop diversity is not collapsing. Our changing diets indicate there are reasons for both concern ...
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