A version of this article originally appeared on The Conversation
Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide – and that’s not good
Reduced agrobiodiversity threatens the stability of our whole food system
Karl Zimmerer is a geographer and environmental scientist whose research and teaching is focused on a group of interconnected topics centered on global human-environmental change. These interests concern the interaction of cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental dynamics in agriculture and resource use of developing and developed countries.