Increasing homogeneity of world food supplies warns of serious implications for farming and nutrition
Monday, March 3, 2014 - 15:00
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.