Gluten-Free Demand Lifts Africa’s Grains

NairobiCassava and sorghum flour fill a bakery’s shelves.

Gluten-free demand abroad is funding crops decades of wheat-focused policy sidelined.

Wheat, maize and rice got the breeding money for 70 years, so these grains’ low yields reflect neglect.

Quinoa’s export boom pushed Andean growers to sell the harvest and eat cheaper imports instead.

Sources: Global Voices