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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
Unaesthetic foodstuffs
Unpresentable
Reliance on canned food
Unpresentable
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
Creating new food sources
Unpresentable
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
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Amenities » Food
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    F0479
    DOCID
    11604790
    D7NID
    134940
    Last update
    Oct 28, 2020