United Nations News Centre - Genetic resources play crucial role in food security – UN agricultural agency: "“[Genetic resources] for food and agriculture play a crucial role in enabling crops, livestock, aquatic organisms and forest trees to withstand climate change-related conditions,” Mr. Gustafson added.
According to FAO, there are as many as 30,000 edible terrestrial plant species in the world. However, only 30 crops account for 95 per cent of human food energy needs, with rice, wheat, maize, millet and sorghum amounting to 60 per cent of these.
About 75 per cent of crop genetic diversity was lost in the last century as farmers worldwide switched to genetically uniform, high-yielding varieties and abandoned multiple local varieties."
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