nt plants weaving through the gardens of CFF outside Malaysia''s capital Kuala Lumpur.
{C} Prof Azam-Ali explains that just four crops -wheat, maize（玉米）, rice and soybean（大豆） -provide two-thirds of the world''s food supply."We''re dependent on these four," he says."But actually there''s 7,000 crops we''ve been farming for thousands of years. We ignore all of those."Researchers are trying to unlock the potential of these ignored crops -plants they describe as otten, under-used or ''alternative'' as they are displaced by increasingly uniform diets fuelled by processed ingredients from the major crops.
{D} It''s a timely quest.The food sector （部门）is already responsible for nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.By 2050 it estimates the world must produce 50% more food to feed the projected global population of 10 billion. Meeting this demand without contributing to climate change calls for urgent solutions.
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