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| Welcome Welcome to the Food Plants International web site. Here you will find the world's largest database of edible food plants, containing useful information on over 18,000 food plants. Food Plants International (FPI) is a not-for-profit organization that aims to provide information about edible plants with the objective of 'Helping the Hungry Feed Themselves'. Some 3 billion people in the world live outside the cash economy in the world's poorest nations. Food security and regular supply are their daily concerns. Chronic malnutrition is a leading cause of death and disease for them. Young children are amongst the most affected. One child every 4-5 seconds dies from malnutrition. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness in 40,000 Asian children each year. Most people in tropical and subtropical countries are iron deficient. It does not have to be this way. Our goal is to provide information that enables people to choose the right plant for their environment, to give them stable food production and a greater choice of plants to enrich their diets and improve their nutritional wellbeing. This web site is still under construction, but feel free to have a look around. |