The Fruit that Could Save the World
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The Breadfruit Belt
The breadfruit belt was known as kaluulu. It was planted to take advantage of the precise conditions at this particular elevation, where other crops were sort of dicey but breadfruit did really well. This was good food all the time, but it was also like a food bank if your other crops happened to fail. If you convert it to a pure, caloric value, just the breadfruit alone would have been enough to feed about 30,000 people today.
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