Despite the fact that farming some 7,000 crops for thousands of years, two-thirds of the world’s food supply is based on just four crops—wheat, maize, rice, and soybean. Now researchers are trying to unlock the potential of all these ignored crops before they get replaced completely by increasingly uniform diets fueled by processed ingredients from the major crops. In their quest to make forgotten crops the future of food, scientists are heading to the fields of Malaysia to revive foods that have been relegated to the sidelines.
Scientists are reviving forgotten crops in Malaysia to feed the future
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