2026-05-11 · percent of plant food energy
Three plants feed most calories
Rice, wheat, and maize dominate diets. Thousands of traditional varieties vanished from fields.
Food system grids split calories, waste, or production into equal bites — one cell is one fixed portion of the total. This grid divides crop calorie supply (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Rice + wheat + maize, Asia & Pacific, and 2 more groups — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of plant food energy (0.1% of crop calorie supply) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Crop yields put Rice + wheat + maize at 60% of crop calorie supply and Asia & Pacific at 20.8% — about 100 percent of plant food energy in this edition's rounding.
FAO food balance: big three ~60% of kcal from plants.
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-05-11-crop-diversity-loss