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Peninah Mwangangi has a smallholder farm in the arid region of Kitui, in eastern Kenya. She explains how using local traditional food crops have helped mitigate against harvest loss when the rains don't come. This is the third story in our 'Fork in the Road' series as part of our Rio+20 campaign.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Enjoying a plate of nutritious mitoo during a a project to promote African leafy vegetables. Photo: S. Mann/Bioversity.
The sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region comprises nearly 50 countries grouped into five sub-regions: Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and the islands of the eastern coast of the continent, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Comoros and the Seychelles.
The sub-Saharan region includes three major regions of crop diversity -- the Ethiopian highlands, the Sahelian transition zone with the delta of the Niger, and the humid forest zone of West and Central Africa -- and people there have given the world some of its most important crops.
Coffee's centre of origin is in the highlands of Ethiopia, which is also a centre of diversity for sorghum, lentil, wheat and barley.
Tropical West Africa is a centre of origin and diversity for African rice (Oryza glaberrima), oil palm, yams and cowpeas.
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Administration AreaCROP WILD RELATIVES | EURISCO | THE AGROBIODIVERSITY GRAPEVINE | PROMUSA | PLATFORM FOR AGROBIODIVERSITY RESEARCH
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