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Ancient African tree provides new 'superfood', but local harvesters are barely surviving


Ancient African tree provides new 'superfood', but local harvesters are barely surviving
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The world has a growing appetite for the fruit of Zimbabwe’s drought-resistant baobab trees as a natural health food. But some buyers in Zimbabwe's urban areas who feed a growing global market for baobab powder are preying on residents' drought-induced hunger to pay them less for fruit.

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