{"id":87519,"date":"2019-02-07T05:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-very-small-number-of-crops-are-dominating-globally-thats-bad-news-for-sustainable-agriculture"},"modified":"2019-02-07T05:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:02:21","slug":"a-very-small-number-of-crops-are-dominating-globally-thats-bad-news-for-sustainable-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-very-small-number-of-crops-are-dominating-globally-thats-bad-news-for-sustainable-agriculture","title":{"rendered":"A very small number of crops are dominating globally. That\u2019s bad news for sustainable agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-very-small-number-of-crops-are-dominating-globally-thats-bad-news-for-sustainable-agriculture2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new U of T study suggests that globally we\u2019re growing more of the same kinds of crops, and this presents major challenges for agricultural sustainability on a global scale.<\/p>\n<p>The study, done by an international team of researchers led by U of T assistant professor Adam Martin, used data from the U.N.\u2019s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) to look at which crops were grown where on large-scale industrial farmlands from 1961 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>They found that within regions crop diversity has actually increased \u2014 in North America for example, 93 different crops are now grown compared to 80 back in the 1960s. The problem, Martin says, is that on a global scale we\u2019re now seeing more of the same kinds of crops being grown on much larger scales.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-02\/uot-avs020619.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019&#45;02\/uot-avs020619.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new U of T study suggests that globally we\u2019re growing more of the same kinds of crops, and this presents major challenges for agricultural sustainability on a global scale. The study, done by an international team of researchers led by U of T assistant professor Adam Martin, used data from the U.N.\u2019s Food and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}