Paul Zink, Agroforestry Expert, CEO Jungle and Gustavo Angelo, COO Jungle, Co-founders of Jungle Project @paulzink_ @JungleProjectcr @Jungle.Foods
Tree of Life: Breadfruit
It’s important that we prioritize staple carbohydrates that grow on trees, creating lasting nutrition for communities and carbon in the ground at the same time. Working with farmers to plant breadfruit trees is essential. Breadfruit is a highly nutritious source of complex carbohydrates, fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals.
Breadfruit grows best in the tropics where there is the most world hunger.
Breadfruit jungles are the perfect food source for areas hit by natural disasters in tropical nations. After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, it took weeks for promised aid to reach people in need.
During that time parts of the island survived for weeks living off breadfruit.
Breadfruit can be a solution for malnourishment, world hunger, and environmental issues: For millennia, nutrient-packed breadfruit was a staple for Pacific Islanders.
Until recently, bringing breadfruit crops outside the tropics has been difficult because of scale. The trees reproduce slowly from rootsuckers.
Growing just a hundred trees that way takes several years. But now a technique using tissue culture, or micro-propagation, allows thousands of trees to be grown in a single month.
Jungle Project is stepping into this new reality
to bring the benefits of the new breadfruit surplus to world markets and also protect the rights of farmers and safeguard the health of the environment.
Paul Zink, Agroforestry Expert, CEO Jungle and Gustavo Angelo, COO Jungle, Co-founders of Jungle Project @paulzink_ @JungleProjectcr @Jungle.Foods
special contribution was featured in Regenerate Your Reality, Book
Chapter 3: Financial Freedom - Living simply, with diversity, sovereignty, and local conscious consumption.
