Crop Experts Embrace One Of Agriculture’s Oldest Legumes As Food For People, Livestock And Astronauts
A long neglected crop with the potential to halt hunger for millions in Africa, sustain the livestock revolution underway in developing countries, rejuvenate nutrient-sapped soils, and even feed astronauts on extended space missions, is attracting scientists from around the world to Senegal this week for the Fifth World Cowpea Research Conference (27 September to 1 October 2010)…
September 28, 2010 · by webmaster · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, conference, cowpea-research, extended-space, feed-astronauts, fifth-world, halt-hunger, long-neglected, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, senegal, the-potential, week, world
