The following is a short excerpt from the article which was originally published on Medium for Journey Foods in January 2019. To read the full article, click here.
In 31 years, the world’s population is set to hit 9 billion. There are over 200,000 edible plant species, but most humans only routinely consume 200 of them. How are 9 billion people supposed to survive on the same 200 plants?
The answer: they won’t. We already can’t survive like that.
Homogenous diets and poor food access mean that one in three people in the world suffers from micronutrient deficiencies, while nearly 2 billion people are overweight or obese.