{"id":6577,"date":"2019-02-06T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2019-02-25T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:42:58","slug":"crop-diversity-increased-over-the-last-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/crop-diversity-increased-over-the-last-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Crop diversity increased over the last 60 years <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0209788\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PLOS One<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0February 6, 2019 14:00 ET<\/strong><br \/>\nData from the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization provides evidence that the 1970s\u201380s marked a widespread period of major increases in diversity of crops grown in nearly all regions of the world. However, while regional differences in crop species pools persist, a trend towards greater homogeneity in the crops being grown in agricultural lands across regions has also emerged. The trends likely reflect the influence of environmental and socio-economic conditions on crops grown in large-scale, industrial agricultural systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author: <\/strong>Adam Martin, University of Toronto, Scarborough &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:adam.martin@utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\">adam.martin@utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLOS One Published\u00a0February 6, 2019 14:00 ET Data from the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization provides evidence that the 1970s\u201380s marked a widespread period of major increases in diversity of crops grown in nearly all regions of the world. However, while regional differences in crop species pools persist, a trend towards greater homogeneity in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1I5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}