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Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains (Lost Crops of Africa Vol. I) by Board on Science and Technology for International Development; Office of International Affairs; Policy and Global Affairs; National Research Council is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Scenes of starvation have drawn the world's attention to Africa's agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Yet there is an overlooked food resource in sub-Saharan Africa that has vast potential: native food plants. When experts were asked to nominate African food plants for inclusion in a new book, a list of 30 species grew quickly to hundreds. All in all, Africa has more than 2,000 native grains and fruits - "lost" species due for rediscovery and exploitation.This volume focuses on native cereals, including African rice, reserved until recently as a luxury food for religious rituals; finger millet, neglected internationally although it is a staple for millions; fonio (acha), probably the oldest African cereal and sometimes called "hungry rice"; pearl millet, a widely used grain that still holds great untapped potential; sorghum, with prospects for making the twenty-first century the "century of sorghum"; tef, in many ways ideal but only now enjoying budding commercial production; and, other cultivated and wild grains. This readable and engaging book dispels myths, often based on Western bia

Who reads Lost Crops of Africa: Volume I: Grains (Lost Crops of Africa Vol. I)?

Author

Board on Science and Technology for International Development; Office of International Affairs; Policy and Global Affairs; National Research Council

Publisher

National Academies Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309105965

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, Technology