Bananas Could Become World's Next Staple Food

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Bananas may be taking the place of potatoes as the world's iconic staple.

Bananas may replace potatoes as a primary food source as the effects of climate change make some crops more expensive and others less viable.

Corn, rice and wheat are the world’s three most important sources of calories, but researchers predict that developing countries may have to look to other sources of food.

As temperatures increase, bananas become an option for farmers.

According to Bruce Campbell, the program director for the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research group who told BBC "Two decades ago there was almost no rice consumption in certain areas of Africa, now there is. People have changed because of the pricing: it's easier to get, it's easier to cook. I think those sort of shifts do occur and I think they will in the future."

Humans aren’t the only species that are looking at changing diets.

Due to the drought, cattle in Kansas are being fed a variety of food byproducts and rejected food, like misshaped candy.

According to the Kansas State University Collegian, increased corn prices have left farmers little choice.