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From takepart.com:
Could This Ethiopian Grain Be the New Quinoa?
Tiny teff packs a nutritional punch and thrives in dry climates.
October 23, 2014 By Josh Scherer
<http://www.takepart.com/author/josh-scherer> 
Josh Scherer is an editorial intern at TakePart. He has written for
Epicurious andThrillist and once ate at three Guy Fieri restaurants in one
night. He is a fifth-year, zero-time all-American at UCLA.
It's drought resistant, easy to harvest and cook, and easier to spell than
freekeh and quinoa <http://www.takepart.com/flashcards/what-is-quinoa> .
Meet teff, the diminutive ancient grain that's been feeding Ethiopia for
5,000 years-and might soon be coming to a store near you.
Before the first teff was sown on U.S. soil, it was already known for
helping to drag Ethiopia out of the 1983 famine, which ravaged the war-torn
nation for three years.
Subsistence farming became a necessity for rural families in the wake of the
crisis, which would kill an estimated 400,000 people. Teff's high nutrient
density-it contains 26 grams of protein per cup-and high yields made it a
staple crop during scarce times.
"There was nothing to eat. There was not any food even to see," one farmer
recalls in this Perennial Plate <http://vimeo.com/109605007>  video, which
shows a family harvesting teff, separating the tiny grain from the dry
chaff. "To prevent it from happening again, we must work hard and take
care."
Some American farmers are taking note of the ancient grain's resilience and
believe it could be a useful tool in mitigating the effects of drought on
livestock.
<http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/09/20/jane-says-soaking-secret-healthi
er-whole-grains> 
At New Mexico State University's Agriculture Experiment Station, cows and
horses are fed a rotating diet of alfalfa and teff, cutting the facility's
water usage by 25 percent, according to a press release from the school.
It is also being grown as a consumer crop by The Teff Company
<https://www.teffco.com/>  in Idaho's Snake River Valley. The long summers,
intense heat spells, and basaltic soil mimic the climate and geology of East
Africa, says owner and teff evangelist Wayne Carlson.
The Ethiopian government prohibits the export of any raw teff product, so
the demand for its domestic cultivation is on the rise. That means that any
teff boom wouldn't come with the attendant problems of quinoa's popularity
<http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/01/25/why-quinoa-could-disappear-compl
etely> , as it wouldn't be shipped from a poor nation half a world away.  


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