The effort is still in its infancy, with a relatively tiny budget of $100 million. But at a time when climate shocks and rising costs are aggravating food insecurity and raising the risks of political instability, the stakes are high.
Instead of urging developing countries to grow only huge amounts of corn and other staple grains, as American policy has done for decades in Africa, Cary Fowler is promoting a return to the great variety of traditional crops that people used to grow more of, such as cowpeas, cassava, and a range of millets.
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