Video: Past, Present and Future of Agriculture
Modern American supermarkets are filled with a dizzying array of products, ranging from ultra-processed to freshly picked. But even as grocery stores in remote areas are beginning to sell exotic produce from halfway around the world, an increasing amount of our calories are coming from a smaller number of crops, staples like wheat, rice, and corn. The global food production system created by the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 70s has enabled humanity to feed more people than ever before, but at the expense of many smaller, local systems of agriculture. Keeping up with the energy needs of a booming population seemed to mean focusing ever more intensely on corn, wheat, and rice.
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