# Nath, *Attaining Food and Nutrition Security in the Developing World*, 2017 > [!cite] > Nath, Prem. *Attaining Food and Nutrition Security in the Developing World*. Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation (PNASF), 2017. --- ‘Bananas may be the world’s oldest cultivated crop.’ [[Nath, Attaining Food and Nutrition Security in the Developing World, 2017|(Nath 2017, 18)]] ‘Watermelon originated in Africa. Domesticated watermelon seeds dated to 4000 B.C. were found in the 1980s in southern Libya. Dorian Fuller of University College London told the New York Times, “The wild watermelon is a horrible, dry little gourd that grows in wadis of the Northern Savannahs but it has seeds you can roast up and eat.” The watermelon we eat now was not developed until Roman times (Hays, 2009c).’ [[Nath, Attaining Food and Nutrition Security in the Developing World, 2017|(Nath 2017, 19)]] ^69f3a9