The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets

The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets A new report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international team of nutrition, agriculture, and botany experts suggests embracing vegetable biodiversity could be key to improving our own health, and that of our planet. Agriculture scientist Maarten van Zonneveld, who led the research while working at the World Vegetable Center, says our existing approaches to agriculture are not enough to solve the world's nutrition problems. "The solution isn't simply to grow more vegetables – it's also to grow more kinds of vegetables," he says . "Much of the vegetable biodiversity we need is still out there – in traditional varieties and their wild relatives. The urgency is to conserve it properly so that we can use it wisely to diversify diets amid climate change ."

The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets

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