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Forgotten crops may hold key to fighting malnutrition in Africa

Across Africa, there are many indigenous but underutilized crops that have the potential to feed a large, underfed and malnourished population.

These so-called “orphaned” crops are generally higher in nutritional value and better adapted to the local farming conditions than the higher-yielding varieties of crops such as rice, maize and wheat. But due to their limited production and international trade, they have been neglected by farmers and plant breeders.

Scientists are now looking at how to improve the productivity and quality of these neglected food sources, so that they can also become major staple crops.

Howard-Yana Shapiro, a senior fellow at UC Davis and the chief agricultural officer at Mars, Inc, will lead a partnership through The African Orphan Crop Consortium, to gather the genetic data of 100 orphan plants in the hope that plant breeders and researchers can start cultivating these crops.

Learn more about the collaboration

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alwaysbewoke

Actual Children’s Answers to The Question “What Is Love?”

“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.” - Chrissy, age 6 
“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.” - Terri, age 4
“Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.” - Danny, age 7
“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss.” - Emily, age 8
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” - Bobby, age 7
“If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,” - Nikka, age 6
“Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.” - Noelle, age 7
“Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.” - Tommy, age 6
“During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.” - Cindy, age 8
“My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.” - Clare, age 6
“Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.” - Elaine, age 5
“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt.” - Chris, age 7
“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.” - Mary Ann, age 4
“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.” - Lauren, age 4
“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.” - Rebecca, age 8
“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” - Karen, age 7
“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” - Jessica, age 8

too bad we forget such wisdom as we get older.

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luisosaurus

??? what is this ???

it’s a tray filled with fucking tubby custard that they jam up to the roof of your mouth and keep there. then they take it out and use the indents of your teeth to make retainers and stuff. it wouldn’t be that bad if it didn’t stay there that long, if the shit wasn’t flavored (’would u like bubblegum or cookie dough’ ‘i don’t really care they both taste like smoking rubber’), and if the ortho didn’t ALWAYS OVERFILL IT SO YOU END UP SWALLOWING LIKE A QUARTER OF THE STUFF AND GAGGING BECAUSE YOU’RE LITERALLY DEEP THROATING A PLASTIC TRAY AND THIS FUCKIN. PUDDING TEETH GLUE

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lindsaychrist

liar.

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luisosaurus

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

Stay woke

Is this true?

Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”

You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.

Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST

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beanmom

Reblog every time I see it. Roughly once a month.

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sweaterkittensahoy

Especially important as we come into prime “buy it for breast cancer!” month.

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officialweatherwax

Don’t forget the time they cut ties with Planned Parenthood and only uncut them after the massive backlash.

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kingforaking

I’m doing a social experiment called ‘agreeing with boys when they compliment you’. 

the results: 

perf example of how uncomfortable boys are with women owning their own awesomeness. for many men, beauty, coolness, desirability are gifts they alone can bestow upon women. they get baffled, even aggressive when you show you’ve known you possess those things all along. 

i love this experiment! 

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toughlovemuse

I reblog stuff like this every time I see it, because I figure women who follow me need the reminder, and men who follow me also need the reminder.

If you pay someone a compliment and they accept it and that makes you angry? You weren’t really interested in paying them a compliment. 

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mvslim

That feeling you get when a non-Muslim is explaining what islam is all about.

That facial expression says it all. 

is that the same girl that got mad about that black guy when he was talking about school shootings??

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