How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants
Suriname’s Saamaka Maroons still grow rice from seeds an ancestor escaping from a plantation carried in her hair. Now a gene bank seeks to widen use of the rare species to help fight the climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/29/rare-rice-species-suriname-saamaka-maroon-slavery-climate-resilience