Seventy-five per cent of the food crop varieties we once grew have disappeared from our fields in the last 100 years.

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Abraham van Beyeren, Pieter Claesz and Willem Heda, the masters of the masters, could paint with no sign of a brushstroke banquet tables displaying dozens of different surfaces and reflections of food, drink and tableware, vases overflowing with 30 varieties of realistic flowers from all seasons.

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It's a day covered in flour, food coloring, and way too many varieties of sugar, and when the only things more eagerly shared than bits of gossip are the samples of raw cookie dough and icing.

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The ocean absorbs close to 26 per cent of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions which is provoking acidification that is already threatening some varieties of plankton and poses a threat to the entire marine food chain and dependant socio-economic activities.

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Wine was promoted as a form of alcohol made from abundant fruit (grapes, both vitas vinifera and indigenous varieties, and other fruits) in order to reduce use of precious food grains for alcohol production.

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The plan is have 500 varieties of crop seeds in the facility, a backup system or Doomsday Vault for the world's food.

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The dozens of varieties of cattle raised today are all derived from the now-extinct auroch, which was used both for food and as a beast of burden from ancient times until the 17th century.

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But the greatest boon of all to food security and to the environment in the long term may be the ability of new crop varieties to tolerate periods of drought and other water-related stresses.

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