Climate change caused drought and flooding is damaging Nigeria’s staple foods, maize, cassava, millet and yam, smallholder farmers say.
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Clearing huge tracts of land to plant one crop like maize has degraded land and put healthy food out of the reach of ordinary people. A new book has solutions.
Just three plant species – wheat, maize and rice – account for 60% of all food eaten globally. A crop science expert argues that many of Africa’s 30,000 edible plants must be revived.
Extreme weather will continue to disrupt global food systems.
Millets have been around for thousands of years – and are back in fashion.
The preparation of ancient meals in prehistoric West Africa combined vegetables, pulses, tubers and, possibly, herbs and spices.
By studying the DNA of people who lived in East Asia thousands of years ago, scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Researcher, TIGR2ESS Programme, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Sustainability
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Reader in South Asian and Iranian Archaeology, University of Cambridge
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Researcher, TIGR2ESS Programme, University of Cambridge
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Professor in Regional Transformation and Economic Security, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Olabisi Onabanjo University
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Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, North-West University
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Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
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Professor and DSTI/NRF SARChI Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town