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Breadfruit - Costa Rica

Traveling through Costa Rica’s mountainous interior with Paul Zink, the intrepid Johnny Appleseed of Breadfruit. Long considered “poor people’s food,” breadfruit has recently undergone a culinary renaissance, one that has turned the fruit into a new source of income for home farmers and a key ingredient in local kitchens
ThemeTechnical Resources
SubjectCrop wild relatives, neglected and underutilized species
PublisherReawakened
Publication year2021
RegionsLatin America and the Caribbean
LanguagesEnglish
Resource typePublications
Resource linkhttps://www.thelexicon.org/reawakened/breadfruit/
KeywordsValue chain; Food security; Agricultural biodiversity; Plant breeding
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