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‘Canoe plants’ can feed the modern world

‘Canoe plants’ can feed the modern world

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The cultivation of traditional but now largely overlooked food stuffs could help to sustain populations in the modern world, according to a research technician at the Breadfruit Institute at Hawaii’s National Tropical Botanical Gardens.

The Institute is promoting the local foodstuff as a response to “critical global food security issues,” especially for developing island states.

Daniel Dickinson met research technician and farmer Noel Dickinson (no relation) under a breadfruit tree at the National Tropical Botanical Gardens on the island of Kauai and began by asking her to describe what the plant looks like. 
 

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Daniel Dickinson/ UN News
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7'14"
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ILO Photo/Kevin Cassidy