African indigenous foods that fight inflammation may help people with diabetes – research

Many African food groups significantly reduce oxidative stress linked to type 2 diabetes and lower the production of ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Kenya's vegetable evangelist claims a prize – and takes on climate change

MUSIEGA, Kenya , Oct. 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For 15 years, Felda Alividza and 21 other widows in this village in Kenya’s Vihiga County have grown something that might not sound that unusual ...
Mother Jones

Here’s How Africa Can Fix Hunger Without “Help” From Monsanto

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Imagine if Monsanto announced the debut of a genetically engineered superfood—a ...
The Gazette

Iowa farmer seeks new markets for African vegetables

IOWA CITY — Most Iowans don’t know how to cook with pumpkin leaves, hibiscus leaves and amaranth, but Alfred Matiyabo grew up with these African crops and believes he can find new markets in the ...
NOLA.com

Herbs and vegetables of the African diaspora grow at Longue Vue, with roots deep in the past

Two garden beds at Longue Vue House & Gardens are rooted in the global diaspora of people from Africa, featuring herbs and vegetables with deep connections to the past. The culinary and medicinal beds ...
OPB

When the foods they grew up with can’t be found, refugees in Oregon are growing their own

Anne-Marie Urukundo, the African Communities Coordinator for Outgrowing Hunger, clears brush and tills land at a garden project for African refugee growers in May 2023. On a warm May morning, in a big ...
The Conversation

Growing African vegetables on buildings can save space and feed cities – new study

Karen Botes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Vihiga farmers minting money from African leafy vegetables

Christopher Angote, 48, from Munungo village in Emuhaya Constituency, spent eight years as a teacher, shaping young minds before he embarked on a journey into commercial farming. "A teacher employed ...
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Lost Crops of Africa: Volume II: Vegetables

The West African locust looks nothing like what Westerners might consider a vegetable plant to be. It is a tree. A true Jack-and-the-beanstalk kind of crop, it is indeed related to beans, albeit ...