Since 1974, the average number of items in a grocery store has increased from 9,000 to almost 44,000 today1. However, 75 percent of the world’s food is currently generated from only 12 plants & 5 animal species2. So while the product range has grown wider, the range of crops grown to produce those products has become more narrow over the last 40+ years. This is a food system dominated by monoculture.