Africa - Our Forgotten Crops

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With last year having been the Year of Biodiversity and this year more and more voices coming forward with suggestions on how to improve food security in our Southern Africa region, it makes eminent sense to find out just how the alleged rapid decline of animals, plants and food may affect or has already affected our continent.
Since the so-called “civilized” cereals and crops were brought in by the Western settlers, we in Africa have been brought more and more to believe that these crops were of better quality and better producers than our own, indigenous and traditional crops, our communal farmers and even some of our commercial farmers have concentrated on these new crops. Recent experience has, however, been that the new, improved crops have become just yet another way the Western powers were making African farmers dependent on them.
With the seed material becoming more and more unaffordable to African farmers, renewed attention is being paid to our continent’s traditional foods - forgotten crops of Africa - discovering that, in many cases, we had been mislead and that our own were as nutritious as, and as easy to raise than any “European” crops and cheaper and more available to our communal and peasant farmers. (...)

The article:
http://www.southerntimesafrica.com/news_article.php?id=6467&title=Our%20Forgotten%20Crops

More about:

http://www.new-ag.info/en/pov/views.php?a=426

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"Lost Crops of Africa":

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309049903

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11763&page=104

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11879

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Africa's Indigenous Crops:

http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/NtP-Africa%27s-Indigenous-Crops.pdf

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