I've spent the last few months or so writing quite a bit about geographies of food.
This article is interesting reading.
https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/ca3129en
Only nine crops (sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava) account for over 66 percent of all crop production by weight.
Source: https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/b355c300-72ed-4a63-be07-8295c80ec7f1

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