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Op-Ed | The World’s Desert Farmers and Chefs Can Guide the U.S. into a Braised New World

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And yet, there will be considerable retooling costs to move away from water-guzzling, energy-intensive production of annual grains and vegetables to multi-species agroforestry systems that involve many more perennial crops. They have the traditional knowledge about these desert crops that other farmers need to pay attention to.