Sentences with phrase «plant food diversity»

These data suggest that the dietary remains from the coprolites reflect a diet low in plant food diversity.

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The fact that we commonly include so many different parts of cruciferous plants in our diet may help us broaden the diversity of phytonutrients that we get from this food group.

Under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a system has been established and agreed upon by most countries of the world that facilitates access to genetic diversity while ensuring appropriate sharing of the benefits that arise from its use.

«Many food security problems revolve around maintaining pollinator diversity to provide services to crops or wild plants and designing landscapes to provide living conditions for pollinators,» Biesmeijer says.

Although North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, the inventory uncovered nearly 4,600 CWR in the United States, including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower, bean, sweet potato, and strawberry.

«Knowing the diversity of plants in Cretaceous environments provides a better understanding of potential food sources for animals such as plant - eating dinosaurs,» says Judy Skog, program director for paleontology in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.

Rich nations should spend more on safeguarding genetic diversity in crop plants or they will jeopardise the world's food supply, warns the US National Research Council in a report published last week.

According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, 75 percent of plant diversity has been lost over the last century.

Salt marshes and beaches also support a diversity of plants, animals, and insects crucial to the food chain.

Nearly all edible plant foods however, with the exception of such things as pine nuts and fiddlehead ferns, are derived from members of the vast diversity of flowering plants, the angiosperms.

We do know that those who eat a whole food, plant based diet have a greater diversity in the microbiome.

The fact that we commonly include so many different parts of cruciferous plants in our diet may help us broaden the diversity of phytonutrients that we get from this food group.

He notes that vegans — people who may consume a wide range of whole plant foods but no animal products — won't be exposed to the same diversity of nutrients that caveman dieters are.

One thing is clear: ancient peoples relied upon a great diversity of plant species as food and medicine: and oftentimes, they were the same thing.

Healthy nutrients play a vital part in fertility, this is why it's important to consume a diversity of plant foods.

Diets high in processed foods, meats, and sugars but pitifully low in plant fiber have killed off a rich diversity of gut bacteria on which our health depends.

This two - pronged approach to define edible, nondigestible carbohydrates recognizes the diversity of carbohydrates in the human food supply that are not digested: plant cell wall and storage carbohydrates that predomi - nate in foods, carbohydrates contributed by animal foods, and isolated and low molecular weight carbohydrates that occur naturally or have been synthesized or otherwise manufactured.

She commended the 2000 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for acknowledging the cultural diversity in American food choices and presenting plant - based foods, such as soyfoods, as a good source of several key nutrients.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

With 9 billion people to feed by 2050 and with crops facing increased stress from rising temperatures and drought, plant breeders must marshal all of the available crop diversity to continuously develop new varieties of wheat, maize, rice, and other foods.

Wild plant species have greater resistance to disease than farmed crops; a decrease in genetic diversity may result in a greater risk of food loss due to epidemics.

And thanks to the Center for Food Safety, a new global peer - to - peer seed saving network will enable more people to contribute to the preservation of plant diversity, and to protect «our public food system from corporate consolidation.&raFood Safety, a new global peer - to - peer seed saving network will enable more people to contribute to the preservation of plant diversity, and to protect «our public food system from corporate consolidation.&rafood system from corporate consolidation.»

Over the last 80 years, the US has lost some 93 % of its fruit and vegetable seed diversity, and the number of edible plant varieties grown worldwide has dropped by more than 75 %, which does not bode well for the future of food security.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.