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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Limited food variety

Limited food variety

Broader

Unhealthy diet
Presentable

Aggravates

Nutritional deficiencies
Excellent
Inadequate health services
Excellent
Subsistence-level malnutrition
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Lack of production for domestic consumers
Excellent
Declining breeds of cultivated plants
Excellent
Overdependence on few crop species
Presentable
Neglected food resources
Presentable
Inhospitable climate
Presentable
Inadequate nutrition education
Presentable
Insufficient farm experiments
Yet to rate

Strategy

Expanding research on plant genetic resources
Presentable
Enriching cultivated plant's genetic diversity with wild relatives
Presentable
Limiting food variety
Yet to rate
Exploiting global biological resources for new foods
Yet to rate

Value

Variety
Yet to rate
Limitedness
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero Hunger

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
Last update
Oct 28, 2020