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Introduction to Food Technology J oseph Maloba is a farmer in the highlands of Kenya. For the last ten years, he has supplied a Western food compa- ny with green beans and has become dependent on their business. The company now says that the beans Joseph grows do not match its standards and has withdrawn its order, leav- ing Joseph facing financial ruin. Joseph’s Story “My name is Joseph Maloba. My family has owned farmlands in the highlands of Kenya for many generations. In the past, we grew many different crops which we sold in local markets, but farming has changed greatly: About forty or fifty years ago, 50 percent of the money spent on food went to farmers; today that figure is much lower than 10 percent.

Today, food science and food technology are taught in universities and colleges around the world.

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