The people of The Gambia like to start their day with a bowl of porridge, which they call ‘mono’ in their local Mandinga language. But the processed porridge they buy in the market isn’t very nutritious. Members of a farming cooperative from the village of Jahaur, which is about half way up the country on The Gambia River, attended a training session provided by the Gambian National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) to learn how to make their own ‘fortified’ porridge. To make the fortified porridge they use four crops, all which…

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