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2025-03-11 00:09:05

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Broken Feather wrote the following post Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:03:59 +0100

Since 1900, we've lost 75% of our global food crop varieties—the most rapid extinction of agricultural genetics in human history. Meanwhile, the US lost 93% of vegetable varieties between 1903-1983. This represents one of the greatest threats to <br />agricultural resilience, yet remains inadequately addressed in policy discussions. The mechanisms of genetic erosion are well-documented. High-yield commercial varieties have displaced 85% of traditional landraces post-1960. Monoculture systems now <br />dominate 80% of global cropland for just 12 plant species.

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