{"id":56,"date":"2019-04-24T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:48:31","slug":"a-foundational-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/a-foundational-report\/","title":{"rendered":"A Foundational Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The hard part about scientific articles is that most of them are pay-to-play, and therefore hard to share; it's easier to share reports from UN agencies and nonprofit institutions. Therefore, if you want to learn everything there is to know about biodiversity and health, look no farther than a 2015 report done by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity), and the WHO (World Health Organization).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Just a picture of the cover - the link is below)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The report is massive - 364 pages - but provides a solid base of knowledge. Considering that my research is focused on nutrition and agrobiodiversity, I focused on the sixth chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you who aren't convinced, this is a great place to start looking into the importance of biodiversity not just to human health but also for the planet as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here's the link to the complete report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The hard part about scientific articles is that most of them are pay-to-play, and therefore hard to share; it's easier to share reports from UN agencies and nonprofit institutions. Therefore, if you want to learn everything there is to know about biodiversity and health, look no farther than a 2015 report done by UNEP (United ...continue reading \"A Foundational Report\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[20,18,21,23,22,17,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-56","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-background-on-agrobiodiversity","7":"tag-biodiversity","8":"tag-cbd","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-landmark","11":"tag-report","12":"tag-unep","13":"tag-who","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry","16":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/sarah-watts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}