{"id":28262,"date":"2019-03-06T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=28262"},"modified":"2019-03-06T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:26:41","slug":"issues-in-brief-no-36-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/publications-library\/issues-in-brief\/issues-in-brief-no-36-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues in Brief, No. 36, March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agricultural Diversity Across Scales: Key to Building a Resilient Global Food System<\/h3>\n

By John Patrick Casellas Connors
\nMarch 2019\u00a0(8 Pages)
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Over the past century, changes in agricultural production and food distribution networks have supported a rapidly growing human population and contributed to improvements in global food security. However, crop diversity has decreased dramatically, with just 74 crops now providing more than 90 percent of the world’s calories. Fewer countries and companies control an ever-increasing share of food production systems, and the genetic diversity of the world’s crops is eroding. In this\u00a0Issues in Brief<\/a><\/em>, John Patrick Casellas Connors explores the\u00a0new shared vulnerabilities resulting from the ongoing transformation of the global food system and discusses the role of diversity in supporting food security across scales, particularly in the context of global climate change.<\/p>\n

John Patrick Casellas Connors<\/a>\u00a0is broadly trained as a human-environment geographer. His research addresses the social and political dimensions of environmental management programs and food systems. Using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, he explores the ways that humans understand and transform their environments and ultimately are affected by these changes. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University, he was formerly a post-doctoral associate<\/a> at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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