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- Almost 96% of the commercial vegetable varieties available in 1903 are now extinct.
- According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), humans now rely upon just 14 species of mammals and birds to supply 90% of all animal-derived foods
- Twelve plant crops account for more than three-quarters of the food consumed in the world, and just three—rice, wheat, and maize—are relied on for more than half of the world’s food.
- Reliance upon modern varieties of rice has caused more than 1,500 local rice varieties in Indonesia to become extinct.
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