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06/03/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Scientists attempt to fight vitamin A deficiency in Africa by developing sweet potato-fortified bread

The fertile farmlands of South Dakota do not produce sweet potatoes. But the even more fertile minds at the state’s biggest university are producing a sweet potato-fortified bread that can fight vitamin A deficiency in Africa, a NewsWise article states. Daniel Mbogo has come all the way from the International Potato Center (CIP) on the […]

01/10/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Crickets are now being farmed in Kenya as a food source for humans

Suggesting that crickets can help certain countries achieve food security is a notion that will initially be met with confusion and maybe even disgust, but a group of researchers has proven that the insect is a good source of animal proteins. The house cricket, or Acheta domesticus, is now being incorporated in the scaled-up production of farming […]

02/09/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Chemical-ridden GMO foods are now being pushed on Africans, destroying their natural food culture

In response to a propaganda piece recently published in a local newspaper that pushes the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as a viable remedy to address exploding cancer rates throughout developing Africa, a concerned citizen of Rwanda wrote a letter to the editor countering this narrative, pointing out that toxic food, and not a lack of […]

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