How corn conquered the world - Chris A. Kniesly
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Corn currently accounts for more than one tenth of our global crop production. And over 99% of cultivated corn is the exact same type: Yellow Dent #2. This means that humans grow more Yellow Dent #2 than any other plant on the planet. So how did this single variety of this single plant become the biggest success story in agricultural history? Chris Kniesly investigates the rise of this wonder-crop.
What are some of the reasons people are concerned about corn monoculture? (Monoculture is the growing of a single crop, in the same area, season after season.)
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Chris A Kniesly
- Director Igor Coric
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Animator Nemanja Petrovic
- Illustrator Jelena Vasiljevic
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Associate Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
