![]() ![]() "Grasses" explores and explains the history of our relationship with these humble yet vital plants since the end of the last Ice Age to the present day. To feed ourselves we will be more dependent on grasses than ever before. It is predicted that by 2050 the world s population will be approximately nine billion, and 90 per cent of the planet s land area will be affected by human activities. Almost all of us at some point play on, relax on, plant, tend, or harvest grasses for our own pleasure or sustenance yet for all that their importance to us is not commonly understood. Grasses cover approximately one quarter of the planet s land surface four specieswheat, rice, maize, and sugarprovide 60 per cent of human calorie intake. ![]() ![]()
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