The diversification of staple foods is great advice, however, the Malawian government promotes a 6-food group model which includes staples, fruits, vegetables, legumes, fats, and animal products. There are literally hundreds of well-adapted, open-pollinated, drought and pest-resistant, high-yielding, and easy-to-grow food crops that could be integrated into seasonal, perennial, highly-nutritious, and low-cost systems of agriculture. If we only focus on staple crops then we are likely to continue to see the high levels of malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies (such as vitamin A and iron), as well as the recurrence of chronic hungry seasons.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 14:09:43 +0000
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