The story of wheat

Ears of plenty
Dec 20th 2005

The story of man's staple food


IN 10,000 years, the earth's population has doubled ten times, from
less than 10m to more than six billion now and ten billion soon. Most
of the calories that made that increase possible have come from three
plants: maize, rice and wheat. The oldest, most widespread and until
recently biggest of the three crops is wheat (see chart). To a first
approximation wheat is the staple food of mankind, and its history is
that of humanity...

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Cheers,

Darrell

Nice informative piece and well writen, but the article, seems, ahem, a
tad bit like a greenwash ad for GM wheat and pesticide use.

Ed Bechtel

Well, it's from The Economist : -)

TG