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<div><font face="Geneva">Foreign' crops dominate national food
consumption and farming practices worldwide</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva">Public Release: 7-Jun-2016</font></div>
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The origins of over two-thirds of the grains, legumes, fruits,
vegetables, and other agricultural crops countries grow and consume
can be traced to ancient breadbaskets in distant parts of the world,
according to an exhaustive peer-reviewed report published
today.</font></div>
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JOURNAL</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva"><i>Proceedings of the Royal Society
B</i></font></div>
<div>get your pdf here:</div>
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>http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprsb/283/1832/2016<span
></span>0792.full.pdf</div>
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<div>Excerpt from the abstract:</div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">"We estimate the degree to which
countries use crops from regions of diversity other than their own
('foreign crops'), and quantify changes in this usage over the past
50 years. Countries are highly interconnected with regard to primary
regions of diversity of the crops they cultivate and/or consume.
Foreign crops are extensively used in food supplies (68.7% of national
food supplies as a global mean are derived from foreign crops) and
production systems (69.3% of crops grown are foreign). Foreign crop
usage has increased significantly over the past 50 years, including in
countries with high indigenous crop diversity."</font></div>
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