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Biodiversity and dietary diversity: Are we running a race to the bottom?
Despite living on a planet with 50,000 edible plants, 60% of our energy intake comes from just three: rice, maize and wheat. What is this lack of dietary diversity doing to our health and the environment?
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 The graph above shows the global availability of food expressed as a percentage of our global need if each individual had a low-risk diet. It is clear that we are over-producing some foods and under-producing others – a massive 568% red meat, 154% whole grains and 148% fish, yet only 89% vegetables, 66% fruit, 51% milk and 42% nuts and seeds. |
 According to FAO and WHO 2014 statistics, an estimated two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies or ‘hidden hunger’ while more than 1.9 billion adults are overweight and 600 million of these are obese. |
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