Why Preserving Plant Genetics Is an Agricultural Insurance Policy
Agriculture built its twentieth-century productivity surge on a narrow bet: a small number of high-yielding, genetically uniform varieties grown at scale across millions of acres. Yields went up. The genetic range those yields depended on shrank. Historical FAO estimates suggest that around 75 percent of crop genetic diversity present in the early 1900s has since […]
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