date:Dec 21, 2012
wheat and rice two crops that are largely used as food crops, and which supply roughly half of the world's dietary calories are declining across a higher percentage of cropland than those of corn and soybean, which are used largely to produce meat or biofuels.
This finding is particularly troubling because it suggests that we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars, as we have largely ignored investments in wheat and rice, crops that feed people a