Agriculture & Food Codexery — Data & Quality

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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-27 · 5 entries checked · 2 flagged · 4 issues confirmed · 2 corrected · 2 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Animal husbandry — Horses were domesticated around 2000 BC in the Pontic-Caspian steppe: The widely accepted date for horse domestication is around 3500–3000 BC (Botai culture), not 2000 BC.

Animal husbandry — Pigs were domesticated in the Near East around 7,000 BC: The earliest evidence for pig domestication in the Near East is around 8,500–8,000 BC, not 7,000 BC.

Aquaculture — The LORE section states 'By 2007, about 430 species (97% of those cultured) had been domesticated during the 20th and 21st centuries, with an estimated 106 species domesticated in the decade leading to 2007.' This is contradictory: if 430 species were farmed a

Aquaculture — The DID YOU KNOW section states 'In 2016, aquaculture was the source of 96.5% by volume of the total 31.2 million tonnes of wild-collected and cultivated aquatic plants combined.' This is factually incorrect: according to FAO data, in 2016, aquaculture produce

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