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Maslins the real ancient grains

Posted by Erin Colborn on

Arguably the progenitor of small grain agriculture in the fertile crescent. Maslins are the understudied solution to many problems. The oldest research paper I can find on them is from 1995. Between then and now there have been few papers or articles. Now only commercially cultivated in a few pockets of the world, they were once one of the foundations of most food systems. Ethiopia and Georgia are the two areas still practicing maslin growing at a larger scale. India, Portugal and the United States are also doing smaller studies. A group of researchers from Cornell and Addis Ababa University...

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