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Reviving nutritious ‘forgotten foods’ like quinoa and moringa can help diversify global food systems, improve resilience to climate change and combat rising food insecurity… Sayed Azam-Ali Sayed Azam-Ali, a member of the United Nations High-Level Experts Panel on Food Security and Nutrition and Chief Executive Officer at Crops for the …

The Global Manifesto on Forgotten Foods is a landmark document representing a wide consensus on a coherent framework for a transformation of the agricultural research and innovation system—by fully unleashing the potential of so-called ‘forgotten foods’. Also referred to as neglected and underutilized species (NUS), indigenous foods, orphan crops or future foods, “forgotten foods” …

In pursuit of productivity, the global food system has become focused on a few staple crops. This has not only left consumers with fewer choices for healthy diets, but also sidelined a wealth of nutritious and resilient food crops around the world. Indian farmers are now growing quinoa But while …