In Africa, wild yams – tubers rich in protein – were a key food for early humans and continue to be enjoyed by some hunter-gatherers today. On the neighboring island of Madagascar, farmers like to grow a great diversity of introduced yam varieties but they are not interested in reestablishing the wild ancestral forms.
(2004)

© Claude Marcel Hladik


A farmer is holding a huge yam in his left hand and a tiny wild ancestral form (?) in his right hand.
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