A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old | The U.S. global food security envoy is pushing to bring back traditional African crops that American policies helped to sideline.
A ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old | The U.S. global food security envoy is pushing to bring back traditional African crops that American policies helped to sideline.
The U.S. global food security envoy is pushing to bring back traditional African crops that American policies helped to sideline.
Traditional crops are more nourishing for people who eat them and for the soils in which they are grown, according to Mr. Fowler, and they are better at withstanding the wild weather delivered by climate change. The problem, he says, is that they’ve been ignored by plant breeders. His goal, through the new State Department initiative, is to increase the agricultural productivity of the most nutritious and climate-hardy among them.
The initial focus is on a half dozen crops in a half dozen countries Africa.
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Why can't Africa just eat corn like the rest of us?
We mostly don't eat it; the US corn crop largely goes to feeding animals and getting burned in cars.
no human corn consumption?? this country is going to hell
