Breadfruit Institute
The Breadfruit Institute was created by the National Tropical Botanical Garden in 2002 to increase focus on breadfruit as a highly nutritional answer to global food shortages.
The mission of the Breadfruit Institute is to promote the conservation and use of breadfruit for food and reforestation. The Institute is taking a leading role in the conservation of breadfruit diversity and ethnobotanical research documenting traditional uses and cultural practices involving breadfruit.
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