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Best of: The world’s food system needs a radical rethink

Zero: The Climate Race

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The Future of Rice

The great majority of our grain crops come from annual plants, which live and die within one year. The longer lasting plants are perennials, which live more than one year. They then come in and swallow up that space and push the annuals out. One of the crops has gone all the way now and is fully commercialized - it's a variety of rice.

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