Warming temperatures are making farming much more difficult in the tropics. Food systems across island nations in the Caribbean and Pacific are particularly vulnerable, being hit hard by a combination of heat waves, droughts, and unseasonal rain. And the impact of climate change in these areas is likely to increase significantly in the next decade, especially for farmers of the most common staples like corn, wheat, and soy.
But there is a calorie-rich, nutrient-dense, and climate-resilient crop that has the power to step in for more common staples that can’t handle global warming. It is called breadfruit, and it is undergoing a quiet revival in its Pacific island and Caribbean homelands, where people are hoping that the tree, and its produce will thrive in a climate-changed future.
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By Richard Schiffman
Warming temperatures are making farming much more difficult in the tropics. Food systems across island nations in the Caribbean and Pacific are particularly vulnerable, being hit hard by a combination of heat waves, droughts, and unseasonal rain. And the impact of climate change in these areas is likely to increase significantly in the next decade, especially for farmers of the most common staples like corn, wheat, and soy.
But there is a calorie-rich, nutrient-dense, and climate-resilient crop that has the power to step in for more common staples that can’t handle global warming. It is called breadfruit, and it is undergoing a quiet revival in its Pacific island and Caribbean homelands, where people are hoping that the tree, and its produce will thrive in a climate-changed future.
Read the full story now: [https://www.wired.com/story/breadfruit-caribbean-pacific-climate-change-super-food/](https://www.wired.com/story/breadfruit-caribbean-pacific-climate-change-super-food/)
Ya except breadfruit tastes like shit
In no point in the article it is mentioned the nutritional and caloric value of this fruit
Didn’t Captain Bligh come up with this idea about 200 years ago?