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Velba Bean Nutrition Project Lyn Carew Participating Organization(s): Centro Internacional de Informacion Sobre Cultivos de Cobertura (CIDECO) Location: The purpose of this project is to remove the "El dopa" toxin from the Velba bean grown as a cover crop and used as food for human and animal consumption. The project is currently researching and analyzing the bean. Future volunteers will gather local information about the bean, focusing on methods currently used for removal of "El dopa" and test these methods to determine their appropriateness for use by growers of the bean. Dr. Lyn Carew, nutritionist at the University of Vermont has been to Honduras three times. Lyn is working with Abel, a professor at Zamorano who is collaborating on research. A number of people are working on this problem around the world, but no one has published factual material on how to do it on a small scale. Volunteer(s): Lyn Carew Activity: Dates: November 20 - Dec. 5, 1997 Volunteer Assignment Trip Report |
   
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