Innovation

Solving a Short-Term Food Shortage May Have Encouraged a Long-Term Collapse in Farming

MONOCULTURE

Global food diversity is in peril, and that could lead to a future crisis in agriculture around the world.

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In August 2020, inside the cupping room of a London roastery, a team of botanists and baristas gathered to taste a coffee species that most believed had been lost forever.

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