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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. (www.nytimes.com)
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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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[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

"return to the great variety of traditional crops that people used to grow more of, like cowpeas, cassava and a range of millets." It's odd that this article doesn't mention more crops. I'm not sure about their 'range of millets', but one thing I know it that the problem with millet is that it contains goitrogens with can cause thyroid problems. Diversity of crops sounds like a good idea.

The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS)
https://www.state.gov/the-vision-for-adapted-crops-and-soils/

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why can't Africa just eat corn like the rest of us?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We mostly don't eat it; the US corn crop largely goes to feeding animals and getting burned in cars.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

no human corn consumption?? this country is going to hell

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Very little.

People actually eating it is part of that little "other" bar.

[–] Nyssa@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

I definitely recommend looking into some of Dr. Fowlers history, he's such a cool person and his work with Crop Trust was so cool.