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Tropical fruit trees can improve health, reduce hunger, boost incomes and fight climate change. So why don\u2019t we grow and eat more?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Two of humanity\u2019s biggest problems – the climate crisis and abysmal eating habits \u2013 can partly be solved by one healthy solution: eating more food from trees, specifically tropical ones. While global trends in agriculture and diets are not easily reversed, scientists say that creating incentives to grow and eat more mangoes, avocados and Brazil nuts \u2013 and dozens of tree-sourced foods most people have never heard of – can be both attainable and sustainable.<\/p>\n
Writing in People and Nature, researchers outline the myriad nutritional, economic and environmental-health potential of increasing the production and consumption of tropical fruits. They present an overview of benefits from tree-sourced foods in terms of nutrition and discuss the barriers and risks of scaling up supply to a global level.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlanting the right type of trees in the right place can provide nutritious foods to improve diets sustainably while providing other valuable ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration,\u201d said Merel Jansen, the lead author from ETH Zurich and the Center of International Forestry Research. \u201cIt also can contribute to development issues related to poverty reduction, biodiversity conservation, and food security.\u201d<\/p>\n