Africa: Officials call for better management of indigenous crops

Developing countries should promote the cultivation of more indigenous crops to help combat hunger and malnutrition facing hundreds of millions of people in Asia and Africa, a U.N. conference on biodiversity was told Tuesday. About 800 million people in the developing world could remain "chronically underfed" unless governments help more farmers cultivate a diverse range of plants that could become food sources, said researchers from the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute.