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THE SCIENCE









                        TAPP    US AID

                       Feed The Future:


                       A U.S. Government’s

                       Global Hunger and Food

                       Security Initiative

                       The Moringa Tree-
                                                                                         L.A. at Home

                       A Gift From Nature
                                                                                                                                                     2011

                       “The amazing thing                                                 The Global
                       about the leaves of                                                  Garden:

                       Moringa is that they                                                A Drought
                       grow during the dry
                                                                                                                                                        Tolerant Tree
                       season and in times
                                                                                       Called Moringa
                       of drought, precisely
                                                                                       “Moringa seems
                       when most other                                                 too good to be
                       food growth is

                       limited.”                                                       true: a fast-

                                                                                       growing, drought-

                                                                                                                      tolerant tree
                                                                                       whose leaves,

                                                                                       flowers, pods and
                                                                                       seeds are not

                                                                                       only edible but
                                                                                       also highly

                                                                                       nutritious.”




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