Increasing homogeneity of world food supplies warns of serious implications for farming and nutrition

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 08:00 in Mathematics & Economics

A comprehensive new study of global food supplies confirms and thoroughly documents for the first time what experts have long suspected: over the last five decades, human diets around the world have grown ever more similar -- by a global average of 36 percent -- and the trend shows no signs of slowing, with major consequences for human nutrition and global food security.

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