Interesting article from the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) about the difficulties of drawing attention to future food crises which have might have poor crop diversity as their cause. But is the Irish famine history´s biggest food crisis?
Absolutely the Irish Potato Famine was the biggest food-based disaster in history -- when you take into account not only lives lost, but the downstream effects on world history, geopolitics, etc etc.
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Absolutely the Irish Potato Famine was the biggest food-based disaster in history -- when you take into account not only lives lost, but the downstream effects on world history, geopolitics, etc etc.
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