Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the perspective of a home cook, fonio is a dream come true; "Fonio is very versatile and it cooks in five minutes," says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of the millet family, fonio fits into two main categories: Digitaria ibura (known as black fonio, which grows in Nigeria, ...

Chef Pierre Thiam prepares his recipe for beef-and-fonio meatballs with sweet potato stew on this week’s episode of F&W Cooks. As an Associate Food Editor, Bridget Hallinan primarily focuses on home ...

An individual grain of fonio is tiny, like a speck of sand. But this humble, mostly unknown grain has a massive mission: Stimulate the economy in sub-Saharan Africa, undo the lingering effects of ...

In northern Ghana, climate change is a hot and dry reality. Rising temperatures have caused severe drought in a region heavily dependent on agriculture. Food production has plummeted, forcing ...

Why is fonio so popular now? Just like fashion, food can become a trend, especially if that food has nutritional merit that was previously overlooked or underrated. As we learn more about that food, ...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. Multinational corporations (and foundations) generally take one approach to agricultural development in Africa. They encourage farmers to grow high-yield ...

You're probably used to seeing words like farro and quinoa on restaurant menus everywhere, but have you heard of fonio? Fonio is an ancient African millet that's naturally gluten-free, easily ...

If you love roasted beets, don’t toss the leafy greens attached to the roots—they’re super-nutritious, contributing magnesium for muscle health and vitamins A (a vision supporter) and K (for blood ...

Calls are growing to invest more in the continent’s traditional grains as a way to break its reliance on imported wheat, rice and maize With sweeps of his arm, Jean-Pierre Kamara showers handfuls of ...

As a child, Pierre Thiam didn’t think there was anything extraordinary about fonio; a tiny-grained cereal he often ate on summer vacations at his grandparents’. Decades later he sees it as the ...