Key Points
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...
A big tree will sequester 1.3 tons of carbon by the time it is mature, according to calculations made by the Trees That Feed Foundation, an Illinois-based nonprofit that provides breadfruit trees to help feed people and create jobs across the tropics...
Such a transformation of its hillsides could happen easily in five to 10 years, she says.. Mary McLaughlin, chair and founder of the Trees That Feed Foundationthe leading supplier of breadfruit trees to the worldshares a similar vision..
(He survived and embarked upon a second breadfruit-transporting expedition in 1793.) The British were looking for a crop that could be quickly and cheaply grown and fed to their slaves, and so the trees spread throughout the Caribbean..
Breadfruit has also seen a dramatic rise in production in Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific in recent years, according to Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, a professor of indigenous crops and cropping systems at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.But he says that more research needs to be done on the over 400 varieties of the tree and their responses to different climate conditions, so that farmers can decide which will be best suited to their locations as the climate changes...
