Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’

Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’

Read full article By Chris Ojiewo @ Down to Earth Photo Credit: Down to Earth Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) health crisis. But the food security crisis that the pandemic has deepened...
From West Africa, here comes the next miracle grain: fonio

From West Africa, here comes the next miracle grain: fonio

Read full article By Augusta Dwyer @ Landscape News Photo Credit:  Hamidou Guindo found that farmers can almost double their yields of fonio by adapting principles from CRFS’s System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methodology. Originally developed in Madagascar in the...
Is Fonio the Ancient Grain of the Future?

Is Fonio the Ancient Grain of the Future?

Read full article By Lisa Held @ Civil Eats Photo Credit: Civil Eats Yolélé hopes this nutritious, climate crisis-ready crop will compete with quinoa globally, while supporting smallholder farms in West Africa. Multinational corporations (and foundations) generally...
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