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Insufficient diversification


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Other Names:
Lack of diversity
Claim:
Diversification programmes must be implemented now before it is too late to begin such programmes.
Narrower Problems:
Political monoculture
Technological monoculture
Loss of cultural diversity
Inadequate farm crop diversity
Undiversified national economies
Lack of diversity in medical science
Lack of variety of social life forms
Underdeveloped sources of income expansion
Insufficient diversification in energy research
Lack of processing industry for primary commodities
Non-diversification in subsistence fishing economies
Inadequate diversification of loans to vulnerable countries
Insufficient diversification of urban and industrial energy supply
Related Problems:
Erosion of biological diversity
Aggravates:
Declining breeds of cultivated plants
Reduced By:
Over-diversification of manufactured goods
Strategies:
Providing sufficient diversity
Doing without adequate diversity
Values:
Diversity
Insufficiency
Lack
Overdiversification
Undiversified
Problem Type:
C: Cross-sectoral problems
Subject(s):
Scarcity
Date of last update
01.05.2000 – 00:00 CEST

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

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