News Headline
Kenya: Root Vegetables - Kenyan Schools Embrace Indigenous Foods
Source
allAfrica.com
Publication Date
2020-11-18
Today, when students file into the lunchroom at Mundika High School in western Kenya, they are greeted by a spread of nutritious local vegetables with exotic-sounding names, like spider plant. But that wasn't always the case. Just a few years ago, that fare had largely disappeared from Kenyan plates, replaced by cheaper foreign-derived foods, like cabbage and maize meal.