Forgotten food crops in sub-Saharan Africa for healthy diets in a changing climate.

ABSTRACT: As climate changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Africa's "forgotten" food crops offer a wide range of options to diversify major staple production as a key measure toward achieving zero hunger and healthy diets. So far, however, these forgotten food crops have been neglected in SSA's climate-change adaptation strategies. Here, we quantified their capacity to adapt cropping systems of SSA's major staples of maize, rice, cassava, and yams to changing climates for the four subregions of West, Central, East, and Southern Africa. We used climate-niche modeling to explore their potential for crop diversification or the replacement of these major staples by 2070, and assessed the possible effects on micronutrient supply. Our results indicated that approximately 10% of the present production locat

SUBMITTER: van Zonneveld M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10083591 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature