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Africa: indigenous vegetables

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa

Indigenous vegetables have been “re-discovered” – that is green leafy vegetables grown in the tropics. Timbuktu Chronicles reports that they are seen as “an ally in the fight against “hidden hunger” [1], the term used to describe deficiencies of micro-nutrients such as vitamin A and minerals like iron, which prevents anaemia….