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Kenya: Root Vegetables - Kenyan Schools Embrace Indigenous Foods

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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.

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