Waning plantain yields in rural Cameroon hurt college attendance

Mongabay
Dec 7, 2017, 11:53 am113 pts
A warming climate and decreased humidity is threatening yields of plantains, a food staple that rural families in Cameroon and elsewhere in Central Africa bank on to pay for their children’s higher education, a new study shows. Plantain (Musa paradisiaca), a kind of cooking banana, is an easy crop for…

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