The plight of Native people losing their way of life, including their agricultural know-how, and adopting the cheap diet provided by the food industry, is a well-documented story. The debilitating diabetes epidemic that afflicts these communities compounds poverty and food insecurity. Rebuilding the connection between the people and their ancestral land through revitalizing local, desert-tolerant, traditional crops, is precisely what two Southern Arizonan non-profit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, have been ceaselessly working towards, with encouraging results. Here is a fascinating account of their journey.
Indigenous crops to provide food security in the dry American Southwest
More of Today's Solutions
Is No Mow May helping bees or just overgrown hype? Here’s what the experts say
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Letting your lawn grow wild in May to help bees and other pollinators? That’s the pitch behind No ...
Read MoreWhy experts say the hantavirus outbreak is not another COVID
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM When a cluster of hantavirus cases emerged aboard the M.V. Hondius, a Dutch polar expedition vessel sailing from ...
Read MoreHow magnesium improves immune cell capabilities
Magnesium is an essential mineral vital to many bodily functions including muscle contraction, nerve transmission, blood pressure, and immunity. Therefore, it makes sense that ...
Read MoreShaping tomorrow: Greece’s progress toward same-sex marriage equality
In a historic move, Greece's center-right government, led by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is poised to legalize same-sex civil marriage and adoption. Crucially, this ...
Read More
